Explore: Positivist Aesthetics

religious faith, are rejected or considered meaningless. Although the positivist approach has been a recurrent theme in the history of Western thought

as a philosophical movement, in the rationalist tradition. The logical positivist program established its theoretical foundations in the empiricism of David

same basic principles at its core. Simply put, positivists see sociology as a science, while anti-positivists do not. The antipositivist tradition continued

comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics have made him one of the most influential and highly discussed figures

in situations both real and hypothetical. Lewis firmly objected to the positivist interpretation of value statements as being merely "expressive", devoid

the cultural study, aesthetics, criticism, and hermeneutics of music. It began in part a reaction against the traditional positivist musicology—focused

positivism further by separating law not only from morality, as the early positivists did, but also from empirical facts, introducing the concept of a norm

abandonment would eventually precipitate the collapse of the broader logical positivist movement. The roots of verificationism may be traced to at least the 19th

statements), such as good and bad, beauty and ugliness, encompass ethics and aesthetics, and are studied via axiology. This barrier between fact and value, as

Gottlieb Fichte, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and the 19th-century positivists and evolutionists including the polymath Herbert Spencer. From the 20th