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Auguste Comte

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Auguste Comte was a French philosopher born in 1798 who is considered the founder of the discipline of sociology and the philosophy of positivism. Some of his notable ideas included positivism, the law of three stages of intellectual development, and the classification of sciences with sociology as the highest-order science. He published several influential works, including The Course of Positive Philosophy and System of Positive Polity, which helped establish sociology as a scientific field of study.

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Auguste Comte was a French philosopher born in 1798 who is considered the founder of the discipline of sociology and the philosophy of positivism. Some of his notable ideas included positivism, the law of three stages of intellectual development, and the classification of sciences with sociology as the highest-order science. He published several

Auguste Comte

Auguste Comte

Auguste Comte by Tony Touillon

Born

Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte


(1798-01-19)19 January 1798

Montpellier, France

Died5 September 1857(1857-09-05) (aged 59)

Paris, France

NationalityFrench
Alma materUniversity of Montpellier
École Polytechnique
SpouseCaroline Massin (m. 1825–1842)
Era19th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy

Notable ideas

Sociological positivism, law of three stages, encyclopedic law, altruism

Influenced

  • Émile Littré, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, John Stuart Mill, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Spencer, Émile Durkheim, Charles Maurras,[3]Harriet Martineau, Pierre Laffitte, Eugen Dühring, George Henry Lewes, Edward Spencer Beesly, Frederic Harrison

Auguste Comte (full name: Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte; January 17, 1798 – September 5, 1857) was a French thinker. He was one of the founders of sociology. He created the word from the Latin: socius, "companion"; and the suffix -ology, "

Auguste Comte

French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist (1798–1857)

Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (; French:[oɡystkɔ̃t]; 19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857)[1] was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term.[2] Comte's ideas were also fundamental to the development of sociology, with him inventing the very term and treating the discipline as the crowning achievement of the sciences.[3][4]

Influenced by Henri de Saint-Simon,[1] Comte's work attempted to remedy the social disorder caused by the French Revolution, which he believed indicated an imminent transition to a new form of society. He sought to establish a new social doctrine based on science, which he labeled positivism. He had a major impact on 19th-century thought, influencing the work of social thinkers such as John Stuart Mill and George Eliot.[5] His concept of Sociology and social ev

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