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1. www.britannica.com › biography › Auguste-ComteAuguste Comte | Biography, Books, Sociology, Positivism ...

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   May 16, 2024 · Auguste Comte (born January 19, 1798, Montpellier, France—died September 5, 1857, Paris) was a French philosopher known as the founder of sociology and of positivism. Comte gave the science of sociology its name and established the new subject in a systematic fashion.

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3. plato.stanford.edu › entries › comteAuguste Comte - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Oct 1, 2008 · Auguste Comte. First published Wed Oct 1, 2008; substantive revision Thu Jan 27, 2022. Auguste Comte (1798–1857) is the founder of positivism, a philosophical and political movement which enjoyed a very wide diffusion in the second half of the nineteenth century. It sank into an almost complete oblivion during the twentieth, when it was ...

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   Oct 9, 2023 · Sociology should approach research in the same way as the natural sciences. It should be objective and logical. Positivism originates from the thinking of the French philosophers and sociologists Henri de Saint-Simon, Auguste Comte, and Emile Durkheim but branched off into German-Austrian and American traditions in the early 20th century.

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6. www.thoughtco.com › auguste-comte-3026485Auguste Comte and His Role in the History of Sociology

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   Auguste Comte was born on January 20, 1798 (according to the Revolutionary calendar then used in France), in Montpellier, France. He was a philosopher who is also considered to be the father of sociology, the study of the development and function of human society, and of positivism, a means of using scientific evidence to discern causes for human behavior.

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   Auguste Comte - Positivism, Sociology, Philosophy: Comte lived through the aftermath of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods, at a time when a new, stable social order—without despotism—was sought. Modern science and technology and the Industrial Revolution had begun transforming the societies of Europe in directions no one yet understood. People experienced violent conflict but ...

8. www.oxfordbibliographies.com › abstract › documentPositivism - Sociology - Oxford Bibliographies

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   Sep 30, 2013 · Introduction. Positivism is a philosophy of science that assumes a specific epistemological, ontological, and methodological perspective. Auguste Comte was the first to lay out the positivist position for sociology arguing that (1) social phenomena—or social facts, as Durkheim would call them—external and observable to individuals were amenable to empirical, scientific analysis and, thus ...

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   Who was Auguste Comte?

   • Auguste Comte, French philosopher known as the founder of sociology and of positivism. Comte gave the science of sociology its name and established the new subject in a systematic fashion. Learn more about Comte’s life and accomplishments in this article.

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   What books are based on the positive philosophy of Auguste Comte?

   • The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte, Volume I , translated by Martineau. A General View of Positivism , translated by J.H. Bridges. The Philosophy of Mathematics , from the Cours de Philosophie Positive, translated by Gillespie.

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   What is Comte a positivist?

   • Comte was a positivist who thought society runs by its own rules, just as the physical world does by the laws of nature and other natural principles. Positivist ideas are formed from sensory experience via reason and logic. The positivist viewpoint holds that all occurrences, regardless of their description, should be investigated scientifically.

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   Is Comte's positivism a philosophy of science or a political philosophy?

   • Thus, contrary to what is usually thought, Comte’s positivism is not a philosophy of science but a political philosophy. Or, if one prefers, Comte’s positivism is a remarkable philosophy that doesn’t separate philosophy of science from political philosophy.

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    Comte also noted how theory and observation in science are mutually reinforcing. Thus, Comte was crucial in developing the social evolutionist school of thinking. According to anthropological evolutionism, positivism is the most advanced stage of civilization and the time when science and logical justifications for scientific phenomena emerge.