“Although Droysen denies that causal explanation is a sufficient condition for the understanding of a human action, he does regard it as a necessary condition. In his Grundriß der Historik he distinguishes between four different forms of interpretation or understanding.15 First, there is pragmatic interpretation, which reconstructs causal context behind an event (§39). Second, there is the interpretation of conditions, which analyzes the specific conditions – whether physical or moral – that make an action possible (§40). Third, there is psychological interpretation, which determines the motives for a person’s action (§41). Fourth and finally, there is interpretation of ideas, which determines the general principles or ideals behind someone’s action (§42). Although Droysen writes of them as different kinds of interpretation, it is clear that he thinks all of them are necessary for a full understanding of human action. Dilthey,”