Positivisme: Menyakralkan Yang Profan Dan Memrofankan Yang Sakral?

Abstract

The development of contemporary science, as commonly known as modern science, cannot be separated from a school of philosophy called positivism. It is a school of philosophy dominantly influenced almost all aspects of both natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. As the name implies, this school of thought prerequisites the presence of empirical phenomenon, statistical measurement, and absenteeism of the relationship between the researcher and the thing to research. Hence something which does not meet the conditions, referring to positivism, would be something scientifically unacceptable. Because of such doctrines, therefore it shows that this school of thought negated the presence of non empirical phenomenon, non statistical measurement, and the involvement of the researcher s belief to the subject of the research. To understand adequately the relationship between positivism and sacred things which are commonly non empirical things , this paper elaborates through literary studies.