Word: positiviste
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Professor Ian G. Barbour writes about the group in the Christian Century, "Is the University today really neutral, or open it tend to have an implied Weltan schauung? Why is it that the mention of a Christian view is often criticized whereas a logical positivist may be dogmatic and even militant in the expression of his faith? Partly because many teachers may not realize that they have presuppositions. . . Should we not encourage rather than discourage the discussion of convictions on the ultimate issues involved...
Hendel, head of the philosophy department at Yale, will moderate and join the discussion between physicist-philosopher Frank, an exponent of existentialism and Barrett, a positivist. Barrett is a professor of philosophy at New York University...
Shame! Picking the bones of an old positivist like Comte! At the very least he got off the ground floor with his classification of thought into theological, metaphysical and positivist levels. TIME, still in the dark basement with a lot of other theologians, is trying to translate knowledge of the real world into dualistic mumbo jumbo. The most you can accomplish that way is to produce a few pages of high-sounding argument without once having to refer to reality . . . Come on, TIME, dig the culture concept and a little bit of scientific method if you want to play...
...called positivism, the scientists would take over "the general direction of this world." Intellectuals who advanced the world toward perfection would achieve immortality in the memory of mankind. Providence was the "Great Being," not God, but a personification of humanity. (A great and in some ways typical 20th century positivist was H. G. Wells, who believed that man was progressing through science to Utopia; Wells's last years, like Comte's, were spent in near-despair...
...sentence "I am guilty," the positivist is concerned with the word "guilty," while the Christian existentialist considers "I" the crucial word...