Krasicki’s positivists and modernists

Plato Among and Against the Post-Modernists

that directs and is the cause of everything.” [1] With moments to expire before Athens would execute him, Plato’s Socrates was exploring the meaning of a few lines by another philosopher. To the last minute of Socrates’ dramatic life, Plato has him making important criticism on vital literary texts. Textual criticism is found throughout Plato’s works, making it his main philosophical methodolog...

Did Habermas Cede Nature to the Positivists?

The debate on discounting: Reconciling positivists and ethicists

Using a simple arbitrage argument, positivists claim that the interest rate provides the right basis to fix the discount rate to evaluate green investment projects. The real interest rate observed in the U.S. during the XXth century has been around 1% and 2%. On the contrary, ethicists estimate the discount rate by the marginal rate of substitution between current and future consumption. From c...

On the Logical Positivists' Philosophy of Psychology: Laying a Legend to Rest

The received view in the history of the philosophy of psychology is that the logical positivists—Carnap and Hempel in particular—endorsed the position commonly known as “logical” or “analytical” behaviourism, according to which the relations between psychological statements and the physical-behavioural statements intended to give their meaning are analytic and knowable a priori. This chapter ar...

nationalism and modernism; a comparison of anthony d. smith (school of historical sociology) and modernists’ approach

nationalism and modernism, and the relationship between them from the perspective of different scholars and schools of thought have always been a subject of debate. many scholars have concerned themselves with the concepts of ethnicity, nation, and nationalism and their relationship with modernism and modern age. the main controversy among scholars and schools of thought has been centered on th...