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...different schools attempt to combat "illusory thinking," Neibuhr said. The Christian existentialist approach is based on the relationship between selves, while the "positivist" school focuses on defining the precise relationship between things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Suicides Existentialists Says Niebuhr | 2/20/1953 | See Source »

Frank and von Mises will present and defend the "Positivist" system of philosophy, and Williams will take the opposition. "Positivism" is a scientific philosophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final SANSS Session | 5/3/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Father Palmiro's Party | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Great Dane | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...Harrison is an eminent English man-of-letters, a friend of John Morley. He has written a Life of Cromwell and numerous essays. He is a follower of Kant's philosophy, a positivist, and a liberalist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lecture on King Alfred Tonight. | 3/1/1901 | See Source »

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