The Positive Mind : Its Development and Impact on Modernity and Postmodernity

Evaldas Nekrasas

ISBN 10: 9633860814 / ISBN 13: 9789633860816

Editore: Amsterdam University Press Jan 2016, 2016

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Neuware - This book is a radical reappraisal of positivism as a major movement in philosophy, science and culture. In examining positivist movement and its contemporary impact, I had the following goals. First, to provide a more precise and systematic definition of the notion of positivism. Second, to describe positivism as a trend of thought concerned not only with the theory of knowledge and philosophy of science, but also with problems of ethics, social, and political philosophy, and show that its representatives usually thought that the problems of the latter cannot be solved without solving the former first. Third, to examine the development of positivism as a movement which preserves a certain tradition and hence possesses some coherence, although the forms of this movement changed in different historical circumstances: it was born in the eighteenth century during the Enlightenment, took the form of social positivism in the nineteenth century, was transformed at the turn of the twentieth century with the emergence of empirio-criticism, and became logical positivism (or logical empiricism) in the twentieth century. Fourth, to reveal the external and internal factors of this evolution. Fifth, to disclose the relation of positivism to other trends of philosophy. Sixth, to determine the influence the positive mind had not only upon philosophy, but upon other cultural phenomena, such as the natural and social sciences, law, politics, arts, religion, and everyday life.

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• Titolo: The Positive Mind : Its Development and Impact on Modernity and Postmodernity
• Editore: Amsterdam University Press Jan 2016
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9633860814
• ISBN 13: 9789633860816
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 231 L x 152 A x 25 P (millimetri) 231 millimetri di larghezza per 152 millimetri di altezza per 25 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 635 grammi

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Riassunto

This book is a radical reappraisal of positivism as a major movement in philosophy, science and culture. In examining positivist movement and its contemporary impact, I had the following goals. First, to provide a more precise and systematic definition of the notion of positivism. Second, to describe positivism as a trend of thought concerned not only with the theory of knowledge and philosophy of science, but also with problems of ethics, social, and political philosophy, and show that its representatives usually thought that the problems of the latter cannot be solved without solving the former first. Third, to examine the development of positivism as a movement which preserves a certain tradition and hence possesses some coherence, although the forms of this movement changed in different historical circumstances: it was born in the eighteenth century during the Enlightenment, took the form of social positivism in the nineteenth century, was transformed at the turn of the twentieth century with the emergence of empirio-criticism, and became logical positivism (or logical empiricism) in the twentieth century. Fourth, to reveal the external and internal factors of this evolution. Fifth, to disclose the relation of positivism to other trends of philosophy. Sixth, to determine the influence the positive mind had not only upon philosophy, but upon other cultural phenomena, such as the natural and social sciences, law, politics, arts, religion, and everyday life.

Informazioni sull'autore

Evaldas Nekrašas is Professor Emeritus and Head of the Department of International Relations and Professor of Philosophy at Vilnius University. He is a fellow of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, and author of several books on philosophy.