Word: positivist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank and von Mises will present and defend the "Positivist" system of philosophy, and Williams will take the opposition. "Positivism" is a scientific philosophy...
...first speeches were predictable enough. Christian Democrat Premier Alcide de Gasperi spoke firmly, if not very eloquently, for the Lateran reaffirmation his party wanted: Christ's divinity was "the crucial question ... of our positivist age. . . ." Then he descended to pragmatism with an arithmetical statement that Togliatti later turned into a trap. Out of 45,526,750 Italians, said De Gasperi, "45,349,221 are Catholics...
...Kierkegaard might as well be that of a new movie star or a kind of smorgasbord. Chief reasons: 1) only in the last decade have most of his works been translated from Danish into English†; 2) his ironical, passionate, introverted philosophy of religion is off beam for positivist, social-minded Americans; 3) his thought is tough going...