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Factions of modern western philosophy
There are two main ideological trends in western philosophy:

1, scientism

scientism

Scientism is also called philosophy of science.

Scientism holds that the basic problems of philosophy are meaningless, and the task of philosophy is to study the laws of scientific development and effective methods of scientific understanding, thus ignoring the study of social problems and life problems.

The main schools of scientism include positivism, logical positivism, critical rationalism and historicism.

2. Humanitarian

humanitarianism

Humanism mainly refers to the philosophical theory with people as the center and starting point.

Humanism boils down the task of philosophy to the study of individual existence and irrational psychological phenomena such as human will and emotion. They are not interested in science and deny the role of scientific and technological development in social progress.

The main schools of humanism include voluntarism, Freudianism, Existentialism and Structuralism.