Auguste Comte
At a glance:
- Series: World Philosophers and Their Works
- Categories: Philosophy, Education, Literature, Publishing, Religion, Ethics, Social Science
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Philosophers, Sociology, Sociologists
- Curriculum: 19th Century European History, French History
Article abstract: Comte was the father of positivism, a philosophy that saw the evolution of new ideas as the shaping force in history and regarded the empirical method of science as the only valid basis of knowledge. Comte sought to extend the method of science to the study of humankind, coining the word “sociology.”
Early Life
Isidore-Auguste-Marie-François-Xavier Comte, the eldest of four children, was born in the French university town of Montpellier on January 19, 1798. His father, Louis-Auguste Comte, was a tax official, a man of strict habits...
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