Positivism

Positivism is still alive and well today, and it says that everything is improving through science, i.e. continually getting more rational (read: better - remember "Better living through chemistry?")

Automata in the Ancient World Heather McDougal 2007

Positivism is still alive and well today, and it says that everything is improving through science, i.e. continually getting more rational (read: better - remember "Better living through chemistry?")

Archive 2007-07-01 Heather McDougal 2007

As to a ‘positivist and “epistemological” outlook’: Positivism is more just a reference to the roots of analytic philosophy’s becoming distinct from other schools.

Matthew Yglesias » Wieseltier vs Sullivan 2010

And the same antithesis exists about another modern religion -- I mean the religion of Comte, generally known as Positivism, or the worship of humanity.

Heretics 1905

Against Positivism, which is virtually Materialism, it protests no less strongly, maintaining that the philosophy which professes to explain the whole of nature by the aid of material laws alone, proceeds upon an assumption which does not merely dispense with

The Philosophy of the Conditioned Henry Longueville Mansel 1845

There is DISTRUST of these modern ideas in this mode of looking at things, a disbelief in all that has been constructed yesterday and today; there is perhaps some slight admixture of satiety and scorn, which can no longer endure the BRIC-A-BRAC of ideas of the most varied origin, such as so-called Positivism at present throws on the market; a disgust of the more refined taste at the village-fair motleyness and patchiness of all these reality-philosophasters, in whom there is nothing either new or true, except this motleyness.

Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

Some general doctrine, such as Positivism, Transcendentalism, Utilitarianism, or Darwinism, is held in common by a group of men; who, however, all judge independently, and therefore are likely to differ in details.

Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

Licentiousness, cruelty, and vice -- "Positivism," or the substitution of the harlotry of the passions for the calm and elevating influences of reason and religion.

Public School Education Michael M��ller 1862

For some time much has been said, in England and on the Continent, concerning "Positivism" and "the Positive Philosophy."

Auguste Comte and Positivism John Stuart Mill 1839

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The Dangers of Architectural Positivism 2009