| 单词 | positivism |
| 例句 | But to prove a negative, or to treat it as having been proved, is, oddly enough, an old and essential strategy of positivism. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z These terms, as conventionally used, are not identical with the terms "real" and "unreal", though the belief that they are is the oldest tenet of positivism. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Coming from an amateur blogger, such positivism would be cause to cringe, but Iain’s enthusiasm is contagious. Pint-size theater critic earns rave reviews from fans like Perez Hilton, Sara Bareilles Then there was Musil the philosophical scientist, interested in probability theory and logical positivism, as well as in the workings of the mind and the soul. ‘The Man Without Qualities’ Acquires a New Volume 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z The ancient antagonist that has shaped positivism and parascientific thought and continues to inspire its missionary zeal is religion. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z A practicing Christian whose wife is a parish priest, Spufford revisits the reasons for writing his book “Unapologetic,” in which he found himself mounting “a defense of imagination as such … against a stupid positivism.” An Essayist Searching for Alternate Worlds 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z At a crucial moment in “Time of the Magicians,” Eilenberger explains that an entire school of philosophy known as logical positivism was born of this exact misunderstanding of Wittgenstein. The Men Who Reinvented Philosophy for Turbulent Times 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z For the recordings, Harrison’s signature slide-guitar sound was in full flower, adorning the LP with buoyancy and positivism. George Harrison's spectacular comeback: What 1979 meant for his post-Beatles career 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z On the other hand, it is refreshing to see a travel piece with a bit of realism rather than relentless positivism. The Florida Keys by Camper Van, With Baby 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z He looked skeptically upon the heroic positivism he encountered in his science and philosophy classes there but found solace in the books of Friedrich Nietzsche. Bruno Latour, Philosopher on the Social Basis of Scientific Facts, Dies at 74 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z "I mean a connection with the spiritual dimension of existence, traditions which in the United States and Europe long ago gave way to positivism, the cult of material success and outright Satanism," said Naryshkin. Russian spy chief tells 'meddling West' to go to the devil, forecasts its demise 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Comte believed that humanity would struggle to transition to positivism, as religions provided comforting and meaningful structure and rituals. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z “The positivism of Instagram is dangerous at the best of times – but now it’s even worse.” Lockdown living: how Europeans are avoiding going stir crazy 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z But there are other, more interesting questions to ask: what is Miss World’s place now, in the era of body positivism and fourth-wave feminism? Miss World: 'It's rather prim for these filthy days… It’s a purity cult' 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z My training in the social sciences implicitly borrows methods of positivism or empiricism that do not just correspond to the human person in an integral fashion. Engineering, Beauty and a Longing for the Infinite 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z When I was in graduate school back in the 1980s, everyone said positivism is dead — although in some ways it actually wasn't. "Why Trust Science?": Naomi Oreskes on the long struggle for truth, and what went wrong 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z Linskey said he looks forward to “healing this breech, and all outstanding issues, and moving forward with renewed hope and positivism.” Jury awards UC Irvine neurosurgeon $2 million in whistleblower retaliation case 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z So is embracing body positivism and wellness really the right approach? Has 'dieting' become a dirty word? 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z They arise from the background of logical positivism, corrected by Popper and Kuhn. Physics Needs Philosophy / Philosophy Needs Physics 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z They read Tractatus as an extreme, idiosyncratic expression of logical positivism, a philosophical school, popular in the early 20th century, that imposes strict constraints on what is knowable. Was Wittgenstein a Mystic? 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Atwood enrolled in the philosophy department, but after discovering that logical positivism was its mainstay, rather than ethics and aesthetics, she switched to literature. Margaret Atwood, the Prophet of Dystopia 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z We live in an age of aggressive positivism, a world overtaken by metrics and markets. 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z And sometimes, as with the example of positivism, the work of professional philosophers actually stands in the way of progress. Science's Path From Myth to Multiverse 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z He points out the problems with the philosophy of positivism, although he agrees that it played a role in the early development of both relativity and quantum mechanics. Physicists Are Philosophers, Too 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z All this came after a week in which Baffert relished the positivism around his trainees American Pharoah and Dortmund, while cringing at suggestions they would dominate. American Pharoah delivers Derby win 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z He is deliberately optimistic and spreads positivism around him. Leveraging Innovation Today for Tomorrow's Company 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Hopes were high in Nigeria before the Iran game but all that positivism evaporated within 90 insipid minutes against a defensively well-organised Iran side. World Cup 2014 power rankings: who is highest after the first round of matches? 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z One example is positivism, which decrees that you should only talk about things that are directly detectable or observable. Science's Path From Myth to Multiverse 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Philosophers as well as physicists no longer take positivism seriously, and so it has no remaining influence on physics, good or bad. Physicists Are Philosophers, Too 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z The bespectacled college professor who toppled House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a Republican primary Tuesday earned a masters of divinity from Princeton with a thesis on the philosophical doctrine of logical positivism. Meet Dave Brat, The Giant Slayer Who Beat Eric Cantor 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z It declined in popularity with the rise of positivism in the 20th century. Is Consciousness Universal? 2014-01-01T05:45:00.400Z He was attacked by the press, the academy, and the Church, and new schools of philosophy, like pragmatism, neo-idealism, and logical positivism, arose in response to his argument. New Biography Reanimates 19th-Century German Polymath Who Foresaw Science's Limits 2013-11-08T17:15:11.193Z In the major journals of opinion, scientific carpetbaggers are regularly accused of determinism, reductionism, essentialism, positivism, and worst of all, something called “scientism.” The Scientism Sermons 2013-09-22T13:29:00Z It is easy to undermine this sort of positivism, so fingers crossed for the next six months. Bradford looks to build on the Bantams' big fillip for civic pride 2013-02-25T06:36:00Z It has that gentle flavor of positivism; in the direction of better. Six Ways Organizations Can Survive Until 2100 2012-11-09T22:31:15Z Metaphysic contains the reason of criticism, as criticism does that of positivism. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Man can't live on machinery alone, and the underfed soul of the past period of positivism craves more spiritual nourishment to-day. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Lytton’s genius impelled him to mysticism, as George Eliot’s associations inclined her to positivism. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z It was a philosophy of positivism, the background for the gigantic work of natural science and technique in the last two thirds of the nineteenth century. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z “The battle is becoming more acute because we need programs which people should vote on, and in a sense it is important to maintain calmness, constructiveness and positivism,” he said. Prokhorov Ousted as Party Leader Cites Kremlin Discord 2011-09-16T23:53:33Z Have we, then, only escaped from positivism to fall into the abyss of scepticism? The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z From this it may be thought that English positivism would find great vogue in Japan. Japan and the California Problem 2011-07-25T02:00:13.940Z The ideal of culture, which prevailed in the nineteenth century with the triumph of positivism, was science, naturalism, and therefore religion. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z The terminus of the destructive movement has been reached in our present-day positivism and philosophical skepticism. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z He was a philosopher, imbued with the tenets of positivism; and she was naturally prone to be fascinated by abstract thought. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z That same morning I went to breakfast at the house of a Proven�al friend to meet the ablest exponent of political positivism, the Radical deputy for Montmartre. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Despite the German rationalism of George Eliot, such fear found utterance in her Behind the Veil, a mystically occult contrast with her novels and with the positivism which was her religion. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Their movement from the point of view of many marked a religious reaction against the materialism and positivism which had failed so signally to satisfy longings of the human soul. Pope Pius the Tenth 2011-04-26T02:00:21.967Z Such a classification, which had its philosophical defenders about twenty years ago, penetrated the popular thought as fully as the positivism of the foregoing generation, and was certainly superior to its materialistic forerunner. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Richard Congreve described The Spanish Gypsy as ‘a mass of positivism.’ The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Of course the existence of this principle in inanimate agencies necessarily implies intelligence: this indeed is our very contention against the whole philosophy of mechanism, positivism and agnosticism. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z In one of them she attacks the positivism of Comte; in the other she assails Laplace's hypothesis regarding the origin of the material universe. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z There’s the quirky cavalcade of American positivism and eccentricity, a striking amount of which could have run in any issue from 1922 to now: “How Much is Your Wife Worth?” Our Towns: Reader?s Digest and Life in These United States 2010-02-22T05:40:00Z In its psychology, however, the assumption of "some underlying substance in contrast to all changing forms," distinguishes it from a pure positivism in a very radical way. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z The attitude of science, as there disclosed, involved a looking to an external world—the objectivism; a division of the field—the specialism; and an experimental, adventurous mind—the agnosticism or positivism. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker To deny this trait to philosophy seems to many to be the suicide of philosophy; to be a systematic adoption of skepticism or agnostic positivism. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude The public, being in the main healthy-minded and honest, do not care for positivism and pessimism. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. In an age of positivism, he was a believing Christian, and the dream of his life was a union of the Eastern and Western Churches. An Outline of Russian Literature Here, however, under the predominance of positivism, there prevails, on the whole, the tendency to regard religion, in its essence, anthropologically or medically and pathologically in connection with bodily conditions. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z With just this meaning, then, a meaning larger and deeper than that usual to positivism, the attitude of the agnostic is instrumental and teleological. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker He was of too masculine and energetic a cast of mind to feel mere shock as he listened to Huxley, Tyndall, Clifford, Harrison, firmly arguing materialism or positivism or agnosticism or other unhistoric forms. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) Would you now like to be the holy knight, adoring and defending the pewter basin or blue china teapot of humanitarianism, or positivism, or mysticism, or æstheticism? Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions And similar drawbacks attach to another set of terms which have much to recommend them—‘positive,’ ‘positivist,’ and ‘positivism.’ Rationalism But nothing will replace it, unless it be the philosophy of positivism, a sort of material religion of the appetites and the senses, which gives no answer to our anguish and our mystical instincts. Contemporary Russian Novelists The spiritualities of the Christian life have often drawn men on, little by little, into the broader spiritualities of systems opposed to it—pantheism, or positivism, or a philosophy of indifference. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century Is there any more substantial solace in it than in the "Oh, may I join the Choir Invisible" aspiration of mid-nineteenth-century positivism? God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' I feel, remembering the blithe positivism of my early note, that I am here scarcely consistent. An Ocean Tramp Positivism with a capital P is thereby made for them, as it was for Littré, something alien to positivism as the free scientific spirit would seek to shape it. Rationalism Merezhkovsky affirms that the Chinese and the Japanese, being the most complete and the most persevering representatives of this "terrestrial" religion, will without fail conquer Europe, where positivism still bears some traces of Christian romanticism. Contemporary Russian Novelists While some thus assumed a churchly and conservative aspect, others outstripped Strauss, and, uniting with French positivism, advanced into utter pantheism and materialism. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Their position is defended to-day by the advocates of “positivism,” who maintain the relativity of all truth. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion Science was born, and the warfare between scientific positivism and religious metaphysics was declared. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 Agnostic positivism, of course, admits this principle theoretically in the most cordial terms, but insists that we must not turn it to any practical use. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy He was an absolute positivist; his positivism did not make him self-assertive nor peremptory; on the contrary, it oppressed him. Contemporary Russian Novelists It is a result not unlike that of positivism, but reached from the ontological instead of the physical side.948.Mr. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion There issued, together with little mutual understanding and less sympathy, on the one hand positivism, or exclusive experimentalism, and on the other hand a rabid and unsympathetic transcendentalism. The Approach to Philosophy Conforming to the usual, in this case positivism, gives a security that is not easily relinquished despite the advantages of actualizing our unique responsible freedom. Humanistic Nursing In the polity of positivism the supreme spiritual power is entrusted to a priesthood of science. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Merezhkovsky does not see them in the States of western Europe, because the "intellectuals" there are antichristians and are congealed in their bourgeois positivism. Contemporary Russian Novelists This was a position analogous to that which positivism reached in France, but from a mental instead of a physical point of view. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion This first takes the form of positivism, or the theory that only such nature as can be directly known can be really known. The Approach to Philosophy However, the Beechers all had a deal of positivism in their characters. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators The positivism of Comte consists of a philosophy and a polity, in which a religion is involved. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. So a biologist like De Vries represents positivism, or the breaking of Continuity, by trying to conceive of evolution by mutation—against the dogma of indistinguishable gradations by "minute variations." The Book of the Damned The philosophy of Ardigò, on the other side, appears more as a continuation and deepening of positivism, though the Italian thinker arrived at his point of view independently of French-English positivism. Evolution in Modern Thought Its epistemological difficulties, always more or less in evidence, have since that day sufficed to discredit materialism, and to foster the growth of a critical and apologetic form of naturalism known as positivism or agnosticism. The Approach to Philosophy It agrees with utilitarianism in explaining practical aspects, and with positivism in disdaining useless abstractions. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics Luna, influenced by the positivism of her race, was gazing into the future, while Aguirre was content with the present moment, not caring to know what would be the end of this love. Luna Benamor I think that high approximation to positivism has often been achieved—instantaneous translation—residue of negativeness left behind, looking much like effects of a stroke of lightning. The Book of the Damned This was to lay the basis of a true positivism by the only means through which it can be laid firmly. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 3 (of 3) Essay 2: The Death of Mr Mill - Essay 3: Mr Mill's Autobiography In its critical phase, wherein it makes the general assertion that the natural sciences constitute the only possible knowledge, whatever be the nature of reality itself, it is called positivism, agnosticism, or simply naturalism. The Approach to Philosophy This able treatise, though it may not be positivism pure and simple, shows a preponderating influence of Comte and his school, and its attitude toward religion is approximately that of Herbert Spencer and Stuart Mill. Essays on Scandinavian Literature The law of development consists in the psychological experience that all the ideas and cognitions of the human mind have necessarily to pass through the three stages of theology, metaphysics, and positivism. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology Over and over and over again, the universal delusion; hope and despair of attempted positivism; that there can be real criteria, or distinct characteristics of anything. The Book of the Damned His point of departure was not, like that of Hegel, the universal, but rather certain very particular sociological facts as interpreted by Comte's positivism. The Age of the Reformation It would be rash to expect that a transition, unprecedented for its width and difficulty, from theology to positivism, from the service of God to the service of Man, could be accomplished without jeopardy. The War and the Churches They have been either the professed champions of theism, or else the visionary optimists of positivism; the former of whom have had no sympathy with positive principles, and the latter no discernment of their results. Is Life Worth Living? In thought, agnosticism, the refusal to accept any ideas or principles except on sufficient evidence; in action, positivism, to act promptly in definite and known directions for definite and known objects: these were his principles. Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work I feel the positivism of a Leverrier, or instinctively take to the notion that all three of these observations relate to the same object. The Book of the Damned In this early book we see him coming forth like a young David against every clumsy champion of utilitarianism, hedonism, positivism, or empiricism. Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy Five Essays I have no sort of sympathy with what is called 'rationalism,' which is positivism in a form. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II But the chief power of positivism is derived otherwise. Is Life Worth Living? But Western Europe, all the Europe which, as M. Comte puts it, “synergizes” after p. 68light and positivism, has tended towards champagnes more or less dry. Lost Leaders Only to have appearance in quasiness is to be proportionately positive, but beyond a degree of attempted positivism, Continuity will rise to pull you back. The Book of the Damned He was, in fact, fast losing all his old habits of positivism. All Around the Moon Perhaps it was the course of his experience which made this irrational positivism natural. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant It is characteristic of the whole school he belongs to; it is inherent in our whole modern positivism—the whole of our exact and enlightened thought. Is Life Worth Living? The heads which had but recently been bending over the Talmud folios in the stuffy atmosphere of the heders and yeshibahs were now crammed with the ideas of positivism, evolution, and socialism. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) Success, as it is called—though there is only success-failure in Intermediateness—will, in Intermediateness, be yours proportionately as you are in adjustment with its own state, or some positivism mixed with compromise and retreat. The Book of the Damned With the emergence of the bourgeois classes a self-satisfied positivism, vividly portrayed in the person of Cosimo de' Medici, superseded the passions and enthusiasms of a previous age. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots The advocacy of the doctrine was at first associated with the claims of naturalism or positivism. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant But it does not for this reason bear any real resemblance to our modern Western positivism, nor give it any reason to be sanguine. Is Life Worth Living? There must now be a period of critical and humanistic positivism in regard to ethics and to art. Aspects of Literature The tendency in these minds would be expression of the universal tendency toward positivism—or Completeness—or conviction that these few regularized vessels constituted all. The Book of the Damned Practical positivism has obliterated the virtues of a chivalrous and feudal past; but science has not yet been born. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots In the light of his own inheritance his ecclesiastical positivism seems strange. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Over 'positivism' in this sense Professor Huxley and Mr. Frederic Harrison have had some public battles. Is Life Worth Living? Neither traditionalism nor the theological positivism of Duns Scotus sufficed for it; it sought to rationalize itself. Tragic Sense Of Life Sense of homogeneity, or our positivist illusion of the unknown—and the fate of all positivism. The Book of the Damned Science was born, and the warfare between scientific positivism and religious metaphysic was declared. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots Meantime, after positivism was buried and agnosticism dead, a thing was achieved for which Comte himself laid the foundation and in which Spencer as he grew older was ever more deeply interested. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Let us turn now to positivism, and consider what is its position. Is Life Worth Living? Then, too, thank God, he has never followed out, in his novels, the theories enunciated in his magazine articles, adulating the intrusion of positivism upon art. Là-bas It is therefore a spiritual conception, itself also a result of the general reaction of the Century against the languid and materialistic positivism of the Eighteenth Century. Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado So that such presentiments, whatever the disciples of positivism may say, are in the right line of nature: "Oft startled and made wise By their low-breathed interpretings, The simply-meek foretaste the springs Of bitter contraries." Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England There were to be priests for the performance of these sacraments and for the inculcation of the doctrines of positivism. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Of the three characteristics at present supposed essential to it, positivism eliminates two and materially modifies the third. Is Life Worth Living? These people are, for the most part, down-and-out journalists or broken spendthrifts seeking to exploit the taste of a public weary of positivism. Là-bas Supposing they were to inoculate me with their positivism! Recollections of My Youth Thus positivism, in this disciple, returned to the artless metaphysics of savages. Cock Lane and Common-Sense It seems to spring up everywhere,—the usual reaction of a society whose life is based upon positivism, the overthrow of ideals, empty pleasures, and soulless striving after gain. Without Dogma In this book the words 'positive,' 'positivist,' and 'positivism' are of constant occurrence as applied to modern thought and thinkers. Is Life Worth Living? "To think that a century of positivism and atheism has been able to overthrow everything but Satanism, and it cannot make Satanism yield an inch." Là-bas In consequence, our own time swings to the other extreme, and cannot have too much of evolution and positivism. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy Resolutely they united the forces of the nation, which at first opposed them from ignorance, and broke down the selfishness and dogmatic positivism of the popular representatives. Germany and the Next War He has long transcended its narrow theory and the shallow positivism on which it was based. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I Here, then, are three results—simple, immediate, and necessary—of positivism, on the moral end. Is Life Worth Living? "It is just at the moment when positivism is at its zenith that mysticism rises again and the follies of the occult begin." Là-bas It gives a glow and a consecration to her work, and makes her as great a prophet as positivism is capable of creating. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy These theories are dear to vulgar minds, because they correspond to inveterate religious beliefs, and the lustre of the varnish explains the good fortune of Spencerian positivism in our time. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Here is the whole of positivism established in principle. Initiation into Philosophy On the contrary, it is most absolutely opposed to it; and its success is due to doctrines which Western positivism most emphatically repudiates. Is Life Worth Living? It is a remarkably Caesar-like head, every feature indicating the decision and positivism of the Roman character—such a one, indeed, as ideally became the author of the 'Considerations.' Two Summers in Guyenne Those who cannot accept her agnosticism and her positivism may learn much from her faith in man and from her enthusiasm for humanity. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy We are therefore indebted to materialism, to positivism, to naturalism for this unhealthy and often disingenuous reflowering of religious exaltation. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Socialism re-appears in the political order, positivism in the intellectual order. Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions The question before us is a plain one, which may be answered in one of two ways, but which positivism cannot possibly answer in both. Is Life Worth Living? In this conception he saw a manifesto proclaiming the positivism of art—modern art, experimental and materialistic. The Fat and the Thin Her imitators may not, and nearly all of them do not, follow her into positivism; but they all study man as a social being. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy Such labours and such discussions constitute a more favourable ground for the scientific development of Aesthetic than the stars of mystical metaphysic or the stables of positivism and of sensualism. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Scepticism, positivism, and agnosticism agree with ordinary dogmatic rationalism in presupposing that everybody knows what the word 'truth' means, without further explanation. Meaning of Truth My aim now is not to argue either that positivism can or cannot be accepted by humanity, but to show what, if accepted, it will have to offer us. Is Life Worth Living? It agrees with nominalism for instance, in always appealing to particulars; with utilitarianism in emphasizing practical aspects; with positivism in its disdain for verbal solutions, useless questions, and metaphysical abstractions. Pragmatism This poem views death as positivism conceives it, and gives a poetic interpretation of that subjective immortality, or that immortality in the race, in which George Eliot so heartily believed. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy Empirical science, with the collusion of positivism, has stolen the cloak of philosophy and must be made to give it back. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic By scepticism this is treated as an unsatisfactory state of affairs, while positivism and agnosticism are cheerful about it, call real truth sour grapes, and consider phenomenal truth quite sufficient for all our 'practical' purposes. Meaning of Truth What is peculiar 164to positivism is the strange corollary to this belief, that man's subjective powers of happiness will go on expanding likewise. Is Life Worth Living? At the moment when we are overcome by the plainest positivism, how can you still believe in phantoms? The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters That she did teach positivism is unfortunately true, so far as her literary touch and expression is concerned. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy The philosopher feels that he has a great mission, which is nothing less than the leading back of thought to belief in the spirit, deserted by so many for crude empiricism and positivism. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic And the general spread of modern positivism, materialism and atheism is one of the most terrific and meaning signs of the times. A Romance of Two Worlds It may be, of course, contended that the religious element is ineradicable: but this is simply either to call positivism an impossibility, or religion an incurable disease. Is Life Worth Living? The era of positivism in politics is about to begin. The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Her sympathies with positivism and with the "scientific method" in philosophy find expression in the pages of this essay. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy Briefly, this party bequeathed the temper of political positivism and at the same time the dread of sectionalism. Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North The philosophy of Ardigo, on the other side, appears more as a continuation and deepening of positivism, though the Italian thinker arrived at his point of view independently of French-English positivism. Darwin and Modern Science A belief in this kind of progress is not peculiar to positivism. Is Life Worth Living? It is amusing to note the superficial forms of reaction against scientific positivism. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft Indeed, in its realization of the spiritual basis of life, and in its portrayal of the religious sentiment, as these are understood by positivism, this book surpasses every other, by whomsoever written. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy The Republicans, with their insistence on positivism in government, had therefore an opportunity to make a new application of the doctrine of governmental aid to business. Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North So much is common to all tongues, but Japanese carries its positivism yet further. The Soul of the Far East He seems to anticipate a continuance side by side of faith and positivism, each with their own adherents, and fighting a ceaseless battle in which neither gains the victory. Is Life Worth Living? If the habits of thought favoured by physical science do but sink deep enough, and no vast calamity come to check mankind in its advance to material contentment, the age of true positivism may arise. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft That she always deliberately set about the task of introducing her positivism into the substance of her novels is not to be supposed. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy In the Democratic convention which met at Charleston in April, 1860, the waning power of political evasion made its last real stand against the rising power of political positivism. Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North Here, we may say, really is the genuine positivism, which reinstates all spiritual reality. A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson On this last belief it is plain that the pleasure does depend, largely if not entirely; and it is precisely this last belief that positivism takes away. Is Life Worth Living? Her harsh positivism was like a tonic to his disenchanted mood, and he thought: "What a pity!" The Glimpses of the Moon She found her philosophical theories confirmed by his, and both together labored for the propagation of that positivism in which they so heartily believed. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy But positivism, so far from brightening this prospect, makes it indefinitely duller than it would be otherwise. Is Life Worth Living? But that is positivism, you will say; certainly it is positivism. A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson In this way positivism is indeed an engine of change, and may inaugurate if not complete a most momentous kind of progress. Is Life Worth Living? Towards positivism as an organization, a discipline,—in short, as a church,—her attitude must be plainly stated. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy In positivism, as developed and modified by Lewes, she found that reconciliation. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy As the poet of positivism, she will long delight those in sympathy with her teachings. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy Her views in this direction, as in many others, were substantially those presented by Lewes in his many works bearing on positivism. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy It is this faculty that positivism, if accepted fully, must either destroy or paralyse; it is this, therefore, that in imagination we must now try to eliminate. Is Life Worth Living? Comte's positivism was the foundation of his own philosophy, and he did little more than to expand and more carefully work out the system of his predecessor. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy She did not write her positivism in broad characters on her books. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy Her enthusiastic acceptance of positivism in that spirit in which it is presented by Lewes, is apparent throughout all her work. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy |
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