Like many Latin American positivists, he re garded the people as ignorant and undisciplined and was therefore contemptuous of universal suffrage. ❋ RONALD HILTON (1968)
The positivists were the brains of the republican movement which brought about the fall of the Empire in 1889, and Benjamin Constant was its leading intel - lectual figure. ❋ RONALD HILTON (1968)
José Victorino Lastarria believed that positivism would provide the philosophical basis for the national progress of Chile, although he had a greater faith in political freedom than did many Latin American positivists. ❋ RONALD HILTON (1968)
Hey, all you quitters and whiners: If it's bad and it hurts, even as it keeps getting worse, you have to try harder, have faith, and above all, think positive! argument against the positivists is their belief that, "If optimism is the key to material success, and if you can achieve an optimistic outlook through the discipline of positive thinking, then there is no excuse for failure." veterans ❋ Unknown (2009)
Until 1933, German lawyers where extreme "positivists", i.e. they strictly seperated law and morality as you suggest. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)
I should think she should also realize that we happy 'positivists' are also trying to contain the worst impulses of human nature, but those sorry worst include the fuzzy tendency to reify wishful thinking into a collection of demanding gods and indignant priests. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"positivists," Saint-Simon and Comte, of whom I have still to speak - ❋ Unknown (1894)
"positivists," that is to say, elevating Auguste Comte, who has his place in the history of philosophy, but not here, because he was not a good writer; both were positivists, but Renan possessed a lively and profound sense of the grandeur and the moral beauty of Christianity, Taine being imbued with more philosophic strictness. ❋ ��mile Faguet (1881)
"positivists," they are fond of calling themselves -- who will tell you that religious thought is a mere survival, an atavistic reversion to a type of consciousness which humanity in its more enlightened examples has long since left behind and out-grown. ❋ William James (1876)
And in a land of contradictions the so-called progressives turn to empiricists and positivists and to the chatter of journalists for guidance. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This irrational fear of sex and gender positivists has haunted feminism since day one. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Most contemporary positivists of international law remain focused on determining whether so-called human rights meet the requisite elements to graduate a moral value to a legal right. ❋ Matthew Smith (2011)
Legal positivists are quick to point out distinctions between moral rights and legal rights, arguing that human rights advocates often mistake what ought to be a right with what is a right. ❋ Matthew Smith (2011)
Though MacKinnon and Dworkin—or “MacDworkin,” as the sex positivists pejoratively call them—would have us believe that the women of the porn industry are victims of patriarchal hegemony, Hartley and company claim to do what they do for profit and pleasure. ❋ MATT LABASH (2010)
It seems like a non-issue to me, the positivists are just wrong. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Once the sex positivists gain the advantage, political unanimity prevails—everybody at the conference is a staunch libertarian—and the only remaining issue is aesthetic. ❋ MATT LABASH (2010)
It was one of the original post-Enlightenment positivists - Auguste Comte, a full-bore true-believer in scientism - who proposed earth's elliptical orbit be changed to one that is circular (for the very purpose of adjusting the climate, btw). ❋ Unknown (2009)
Unfortunately, the traditions laid down by positivists of the early 20th Century have remained implicit in the profession. ❋ Unknown (2009)
