Inner Experience as Matter of Research in Humanities

The paper deals with the understanding and conceptualizing of the inner experience in different branches of humanities.
The author follows W. Dilthey's standpoint interpreted by V. Melas, i.e. the special attention is paid namely to the temporal aspect of the inner experience. It is considered as an internally whole interval of the activity of consciousness. Simultaneously, research in humanities is always related to some communication; therefore it possesses practical aspects. According to the author, a process
of understanding consists of different behavioural acts of consciousness. for instance: empathy, emotional reactions, exchanging points of view, dialogue. It is supposed their inseparable unity despite of the particular role of each of them in the concrete case of interaction. The subject of dialogue, (the researcher included), should be attentive to the stability of their own convictions during the opinion exchange, i.e. they should in no way let their worldview alter due to the interlocutor's affective influence.
The paper points out conditions defining the character of research in humanities. These are as follows: direct or mediate contact with the interlocutor's subjectivity, presence or absence of the task to transformate the inner experience of the other; similarity or difference of personal experience concerning the scholar as well as their object of research; unity or difference of social and political circumstances related to the research. In connection therewith, the paper summarizes a brief analysis of the psychological resp. pedagogical understanding as well as of the understanding of the inner experience related to the research in the sphere of history or religious studies.