Victorian Positivism in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss

This research aims at studying the Positivist ideas in George Eliot‟s The Mill on the Floss. The introduction talks about the Positivist theory and its founder August Comte. The theory puts science as a basis for any discussion or analysis. Comte thinks that man must have an object or a subject to love and respect, so he asks to substitute the idea of Deity with the idea of humanity as a whole unity including all men and women in all ages who work to serve society and achieve good morals.

Positivism and its Critics in International Relations (A Critical Studies of Positivist Theories)

The last few decades witnessed the rise of new approaches or frameworks in the study of International relations. These new approaches are called post positivism. Most of these approaches share a common view regarding the positivist theories which dominated international relations and political science for more than sixty years. The new directions criticize the methodology and the epistemological and ontological assumptions of positivism. In this paper we try to evaluate the contribution of the positivist theories in international relations and the arguments of the new approaches, mainly Critical theory, post-modernism and social constructivism.