Positivism

This philosophy has been my central area of study for a year or so now. I find its ideas throughout the modern world, depite the explicit fall of Positivism in the middle of the last century. Whether its the influence of Positivism in education, or technocracy as a form of stasism, I think its not only one of the fundamental ideological positions presently, but has been since its articulation nearly two hundred years ago. Any number of people, like Virginia Postrel, argue that its not about right and left, but identifies dynamists, reactionaries, and technocrats. If I were to rename these groups Enlightenment liberals, reactionaries, and positivists, I think it becomes obvious that this isn't a post-Cold War innovation.