In a message dated 1/21/99 4:41:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, making@xxxxxxxx
writes:
> He somewhere refers to his reading of texts as a
> kind of positivism, doesn't he?--which seems to imply taking them as one
> finds them in the terms of one's own horizon.
Well, positivism is a peculiar value orientation, one that not only views
reality as that which is 'only' the good and the right, but whose activity
conveniently perceives only this viewpoint. It considers itself as
'objective' because it is scientific, sure.
Vunch
writes:
> He somewhere refers to his reading of texts as a
> kind of positivism, doesn't he?--which seems to imply taking them as one
> finds them in the terms of one's own horizon.
Well, positivism is a peculiar value orientation, one that not only views
reality as that which is 'only' the good and the right, but whose activity
conveniently perceives only this viewpoint. It considers itself as
'objective' because it is scientific, sure.
Vunch