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positivism

A school of philosophy that rejects value judgements, metaphysics and theology and holds that the only path to reliable knowledge is that of scientific observation and experiment.

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class="MsoNormalThe danger with positivism is that it has the potential of leading to an unimaginable injustice because human rights abuses can be justified by relying on the law as it is.

Legislating for a nation calls for highest integrity threshold

The Dead End of Legal Positivism and the Retrieval of its Raison D'Etre

LEGAL POSITIVISM'S LEGITIMATE HEIR?

As another scholar described, that approach had been "the dominant school of legal theory in the United States in the late nineteenth and into the first decades of the twentieth century, both among legal scholars and the courts." (22) Tamanaha also notes the way that this approach offered an important supplement to natural law approaches and legal positivism (a theme taken up further below).

A NEW HISTORICAL JURISPRUDENCE?

Positivism, on the other hand, is the theory that knowledge can be acquired only through direct observation and experimentation and not through metaphysics or theology4.

EXISTENTIALISM HAS INDEED A STRONG UNDERTONE OF POSITIVISM: THE REALITY HAS THE LAST WORD (HERBERT MARCUSE)

In Figure 2, minimum subjectivity tends to be associated with methodological approaches such as positivism, realism, instrumentalism and conventionalism.

Pragmatism for mixed method research at higher education level

In part under the influence of the dominant Catholicism, Neo-spiritualists displayed remarkable agreement on the criticism towards legal positivism accused of not having raised substantive moral questions and of complicity in recent history of nazism.

Contrarrestando con antidotos curativos. Mas alla de Kelsen, aproximacion a Ross

Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945-1975.

LeMahieu, Michael. 2013. Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945-1975

Some of paradigms in in the domain of management science and organization are Positivism, Interpretivism, Critical theory, Post-modernism and Chaos theory.

A comparative study of functions of management and organization theory paradigms

My hypothesis benefits from insights of both MacCormick and Gardner concerning the nature of the fable, as well as from the idea that protecting legal positivism (put in Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals) is the key to the reading of The Concept of Law in general, and of the fable in particular.

WHY SECONDARY RULES MIGHT EMERGE? A Reinterpretation of Hart's Fable/POR QUE SURGEM AS REGRAS SECUNDARIAS? Uma reinterpretacao da fabula de Hart

SECTION I: THEORETICAL INCONSISTENCIES OF POSITIVISM

Legitimacy, authority, and validity of law: an integrated approach to legal positivism and the methodology of welfare-grundnorm

Tracing literary responses to logical positivisms precedence in mid-century US philosophical culture, LeMahieu demonstrates this positivism's determining but curiously disavowed role in the rhetoric of the era's university-centric fiction, from Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People" (1955) to a swan song in Don DeLillo's End Zone (1972).

Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature 1945-1975

The topics are leaving the shtetl, from haskalah to positivism, young Dubnow as a Jewish positivist, coping with new realities, Romantic positivism, the historian become a nationalist, from the 19th to the 20th century, and reconsiderations.

Simon Dubnow's "New Judaism": Diaspora Nationalism and the World History of the Jews