Positivism
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- | Positivism is part of a more general ancient quarrel between [[philosophy]] and [[poetry]], notably laid out by [[Plato]] and later reformulated as a quarrel between the sciences and the [[humanities]], Plato elaborates a critique of poetry from the point of view of philosophy in his dialogues ''[[Phaedrus (dialogue)|Phaedrus]]'' 245a, ''[[Symposium (Plato)|Symposium]]'' 209a, ''[[The Republic (Plato)|Republic]]'' 398a, ''[[Laws (dialogue)|Laws]]'' 817 b-d and ''[[Ion (dialogue)|Ion]]''. the distinction, popularized by [[Wilhelm Dilthey]], between [[Geisteswissenschaft]] (humanities) and Naturwissenschaften (natural science), | + | Positivism is part of a more general ancient quarrel between [[philosophy]] and [[poetry]], notably laid out by [[Plato]] and later reformulated as a quarrel between the sciences and the [[humanities]]. |
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- | The consideration that laws in physics may not be absolute but relative, and, if so, this might be more true of social sciences, was stated, in different terms, by [[G. B. Vico]] in 1725. Vico, in contrast to the positivist movement, asserted the superiority of the science of the human mind (the humanities, in other words), on the grounds that natural sciences tell us nothing about the inward aspects of things. | + | |
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Positivism refers to a set of epistemological perspectives and philosophies of science which hold that the scientific method is the best approach to uncovering the processes by which both physical and human events occur. The concept was developed in the early 19th century by the philosopher and founding sociologist, Auguste Comte. Irrationalism and aestheticism were philosophical movements which formed as a cultural reaction against positivism in the early 20th century.
Antecedents
Positivism is part of a more general ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry, notably laid out by Plato and later reformulated as a quarrel between the sciences and the humanities.
See also
- In sociology
- Antipositivism
- Quantitative research
- Qualitative research
- Middle range theory (sociology)
- Philosophy of social science
- Social evolutionism
- In philosophy
- Logical positivism
- Postpositivism
- Analytic philosophy
- A. J. Ayer
- Bertrand Russell
- Gödel's incompleteness theorems
- Vladimir Solovyov
- Regional histories
- Other areas
- Pejorative treatment
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