According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "positivism" is
a philosophical system [...] recognizing only observable phenomena and empirically verifiable scientific facts and laws, and rejecting inquiry into ultimate causes or origins as belonging to outmoded metaphysical or theological stages of thought.
Unfortunately, this philosophy forms the basis of much of modern science which, through the success of technology, has greatly influenced the world-view of our society at large. We no longer think that humans have souls more special and distinguished than those of animals; and because we no longer care about questions like "From where do we come?" and "To where are we heading?," we erroneously consider ourselves nothing more than animals.
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