Materialism – Positivism

2015-08-112016-04-28

Atheism, Like Theology, Discusses Insoluble Mysteries

This is the complete passage on “atheism, materialism, fatalism, and optimism” of Auguste Comte’s A General View of Positivism, first published in French in 1848, the English text taken from Frederick Harrison’s edition... Read More | Share it now!

2013-02-022016-03-11

Going Viral | Ernst Mach on Matter and the Constancy of His Existence

“Matter” is among the concepts he rejects – as a positivist or as a strict empiricist. In the preface to the fourth edition of his Analysis of Sensations (1902) he is happy about the company of those philosophers who have developed much the same... Read More | Share it now!