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Hace 1 día · 1. Introduction. In recent years, there has been a movement towards viewing general jurisprudence in eliminativist terms, or at least towards thinking of contemporary non-positivism in those terms. As applied to legal philosophy, an eliminativist method is generally viewed one that eliminates talk of the ‘nature’ of law, Footnote 1 or of law understood in a ‘doctrinal’ sense, Footnote ...
4 de jun. de 2024 · Analytic philosophy, a loosely related set of approaches to philosophical problems, dominant in Anglo-American philosophy from the early 20th century, that emphasizes the study of language and the logical analysis of concepts.
25 de jun. de 2024 · Legal positivism reflects the belief that law is nothing more than the rules and principles that actually govern or regulate a society. Positivism insists on the separation of law and morality, and, as a result, focuses on describing laws without reference to justness or legitimacy.
Hace 2 días · Positivism was born in the mid-nineteenth century as the heir of empiricism and epistemology.. Its founders are considered to have been Auguste Comte and Henri Saint-Simon (1760-1825). Both maintained that one should only aspire to the knowledge that arises from applying the scientific method.
Hace 1 día · One cannot understand religion in general, and religious truth or error, save by stressing at the start the fact that, although it goes beyond the narrow confines of Comte's positivism, it flows from the cosmos of the world, the historico-geographical domain of man, not of nature, as an ensemble of the non-temporal laws or laws of the universe, devoid of center, which interests science.
21 de jun. de 2024 · Wittgenstein thought that he himself had succumbed to an overly narrow view of language in the Tractatus, concentrating on the question of how propositions acquired their meaning and ignoring all other aspects of meaningful language use.
4 de jun. de 2024 · The usual view of the positivists, as mentioned briefly above, is that what look like statements of fact—e.g., that one should not tell lies—are really expressions of one’s feelings toward a certain action, in the same way that “Ouch!” is an expression of one’s pain.
