Higher positivism

S. P. Banerjee

pp. 145-156

in: Frank M. Kirkland, Chattopadhyaya (eds), Phenomenology: East and West, Berlin, Springer, 1993

Abstract

In a paper entitled "Modes of Givenness"¹, written in 1958 in honor of Professor Josef König of the University of Göttingen, J.N. Mohanty speaks of a "higher positivism", which he has upheld, in contrast to a "lower positivism", which he has criticized. Throughout his career, he has been primarily concerned with modes of givenness as well as with the given. So in this paper I shall be concerned with explicating critically Mohanty's standpoint in propounding a "higher positivism".