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Comte, Auguste
COMTE, AUGUSTE (1798–1857), French philosopher, founder of positivism. Born into a Roman Catholic, royalist family in Montpellier, France, Comte completed his early education by ...
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Comte, Auguste
One of the French founders of modern sociology, Isidore-Auguste-Marie-François-Xavier Comte, better known simply as Auguste Comte (1798–1857), was born in Montpellier on J...
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Comte, Auguste(1798–1857)
Auguste Comte was a French positivist philosopher. Positivism may be viewed as either a philosophical system and method or as a philosophy of history. In the latter as...
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The French philosopher Auguste Comte (1798-1857) developed a system of positive philosophy. He held that science and history culminate in a new science of humanity, to which he gave the name "sociolog...
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Born in Montpellier, Auguste Comte abandoned the devout Catholicism and royalism of his family while in his teens. He entered the École Polytechnique in 1814 and proved himself a brilliant math...
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In the following review, Brewster outlines a "sketch of the objects and methods of positive knowledge," focusing especially on Comte's theism and cosmology
The competitors for the...
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In the following essay, Pickering outlines Comte's positive philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, and biology.
Let us not forget that in almost all minds, even the most eleva...
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In the following essay, Kremer-Marietti chronicles the relationship between Comte and Mill, documenting possible mutual influences.
On November 8, 1841, when John Stuart Mill (1806-1872) first wrote t...
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In the following letter to Comte, Mill discusses his intellectual indebtedness to Comte and his system.
I don't know, Sir, whether someone completely unknown to you may take a few moments of ti...
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In the following essay, Lewes considers Comte's Law of Three States and his class system.
Guided by his logical principles of the general extension of the Positive Method to the rational study ...
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In the following essay, originally written in 1895, Durkheim discusses Comte's conception of sociology.
Engendered within a philosophy, sheer necessity obliged sociology from the beginning to d...
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In the following essay, Levy-Bruhl contrasts Comte's philosophy with the metaphysics that preceded it.
At the end of the Cours de philosophie positive Comte has himself summed up the results wh...
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In the following essay, Style discusses the legacy of Comte's religion of Humanity.
Before Comte died he felt that the religion of Humanity had been proclaimed to the world, and believed that f...
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In the following essay, Gilson considers Comte's sociologism to be "one of the most striking philosophical experiments recorded by history."
On the third day of the month of Dante...
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In the following essay, Voegelin contends that Comte's political philosophy is an apocalyptic vision that establishes Comte as an authoritarian figure.
After a century of misunderstanding we ar...
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In the following essay, Standley discusses the paradoxical legacy of Comte and his philosophy.
The space of more than a century between us and Comte has done little to clarify his image. Now, the para...
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Comte, Auguste
Comte, Auguste
Comte, Auguste (1798–1857)
Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
Critical Review by David Brewster
