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Comte, Auguste
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Comte, Auguste (1798–1857), founder of French
Positivism and of the ‘Religion of Humanity’. The foundation of his system is the law of the three stages—the theological, the metaphysical, and the ‘positive’—which constitute the phases of development of the human race as well as of its individual members. In the theological and metaphysical stages the human mind seeks a cause or essence to explain phenomena, but in the third or positive phase explanation is discovered in a law. Comte advocated the organization of mankind in one vast system in which altruism was to conquer egoism. Thinking this possible only on a religious basis, he constructed a new kind of religion, with humanity in the place of God, and a cultus mainly borrowed from Catholicism.
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Auguste Comte: proponent of positivism and evolutionary thought.(Great Minds)(Biography)
Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Auguste Comte was born January 19, 1798, in the southern...the cornerstone of sociology today. Comte believed that positivism would create...be positive. In the summer of 1817, Auguste Comte was introduced to French utopian socialist...
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Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill on sexual equality; historical, methodological and philosophical issues.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2009; 536 words
; 9789004174696 Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill on sexual equality...epistemology, methodology, and theory between Comte and Mill. While sexual equality was...attractive to modern readers, while Comte's views on the same subject are very...
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Positivist Republic: Auguste Comte and the Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-1920.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 4/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...disciples of the French philosopher Auguste Comte, he contends, made critical contributions...Edger, a sort of evangelist for Comte's positivism. Edger interested...intellectuals and professionals in Comte's philosophy of scientism and social...
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Lyon's share: hunting for antiques in Lyon, decorator Matthew Smyth learns that the buck doesn't stop in Paris. (shopping spree).(Interview)
Magazine article from: House Beautiful; 5/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...scene, and his shop on the me Auguste Comte is a composite of four separate...Christophe Bils, 68, rue Auguste Comte; 78-42-89-50 * Michel Descours, 44, rue Auguste Comte (main shop); 78-37-34...
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The organism metaphor in sociology.
Magazine article from: Social Research; 6/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...grandfather was the eccentric French philosopher Auguste Comte. Ironically, Comte employed the social organism metaphor to ground...what he called intellectual and moral anarchy, Auguste Comte (like his erstwhile mentor Saint-Simon) sought...
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B. F. SKINNER'S OTHER POSITIVISTIC BOOK: WALDEN TWO
Magazine article from: Behavior and Philosophy; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...selectionist views. Key words: Comte, dystopia, positivism, neopositivism...Pierre Lafitte, the successor of Comte at the head of the Positivist Society...positivism. Positivist Background Auguste Comte (1798-1857), who coined the...
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Emile Littre, 1801-1881. (Great Minds).
Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Littre discovered the positivism of Auguste Comte, as expounded in the latter's...introduced the general reading public to Comte's ideas. By mid-century, Littre was universally regarded as Comte's leading disciple. In 1851...
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Philosophers strike back.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: Science News; 9/12/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...do scientists! Immanuel Kant and Auguste Comte were just as wrong about many things...Similarly, Siegfried did not understand Comte's apparent claim that we shall...fact, in the very next sentence Comte wrote, "Whatever knowledge is obtainable...
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Changing Aims in Economics.
Magazine article from: Southern Economic Journal; 4/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Kant and Hegel - and, more importantly for our purposes, Positivism - founded by Auguste Comte. The original positivism of Comte was purely empirical. Comte maintained that correlations among observations are all that we can "know." Causation...
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Where horizontal and vertical meet: examining the positive science of dependent quality systems.
Magazine article from: Industrial Engineer; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Nineteenth-century philosopher Auguste Comte suggested that any discipline has...coherent. To illustrate this theory, Comte discussed the progression of the...gone through the first two phases of Comte's evolution. In the first phase...
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Comte, Auguste
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
Comte, Auguste (1798–1857) A French social...xC9;cole Polytechnique in Paris, Comte became Henri Saint-Simon's secretary...after a dispute over authorship credits), Comte was able to begin the development of what...
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Auguste Charles Joseph Flahaut de La Billarderie, comte de
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Auguste Charles Joseph Flahaut de La Billarderie, comte de , 1785-1870, French general and statesman; illegitimate son of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand and Adèle de Flahaut...
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Auguste Comte
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Auguste Comte The French philosopher Auguste Comte (1798-1857) developed a system of positive philosophy...which he gave the name "sociology." Born in Montpellier, Auguste Comte abandoned the devout Catholicism and royalism of his family...
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Comte, Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Comte, Isidore Auguste Marie Fran ç ois Xavier ( b . Montpellier, France, 19 January...mathematics . The eldest of the three children born to Louis Auguste Xavier Comte and Rosalie Boyer, Comte came from a Catholic and royalist family...
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Louis Auguste Bourmont, comte de Ghaisnes de
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Louis Auguste Bourmont, comte de Ghaisnes de , 1773-1846, marshal of France. An émigré, he fought against the French Revolution under...
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