Auguste Comte: proponent of positivism and evolutionary thought.(Great Minds)(Biography)

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Auguste Comte was born January 19, 1798, in the southern French city of Montpellier during the height of chaos and instability in France. He lived for fifty-nine years. Math teacher and former Protestant pastor Daniel Encontre was the only teacher who impressed him during his formal education. It was perhaps Encontre who stimulated the intellect of the young Comte and inspired his wide-ranging pursuit of interests. Comte's knowledge of mathematics would help him in his latter years, when he attempted to establish the validity of "laws" governing society. Comte was as ...

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