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Tag: Comtean Positivism

Posted on 2013-03-222016-03-14

Auguste Comte on the Relativity of Scientific Knowledge

What puzzles me is the question how much of Mach’s positivism, or even Wittgenstein’s neo-positivism (if both allow me these categorisations) is actually inherent in Comte’s explicit positivism. I used to think: not much. Yet whenever... Read More | Share it now!

Posted on 2012-11-012015-05-12

A General View of Positivism (1848), introduction | by Auguste Comte

From the “introductory remarks” to Auguste Comte, A General View of Positivism , Bridges, J.H. (tr.) (London: Trubner and Co., 1865/ 2nd ed. 1880), pp. 1-5. Reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 978-1-108-00064-2. Positivism... Read More | Share it now!

Posted on 2012-10-252016-02-26

New edition of Auguste Comte’s ‘Cours de philosophie positive’, Lessons 46-51 (1830-42)

The volume contains Comte’s first six lessons on sociology edited and freshly annotated by Michel Bourdeau, Laurent Clauzade, and Frédéric Dupin. Political arguments showing the necessity and timeliness of the science of society Survey of... Read More | Share it now!

Posted on 2012-06-062016-02-26

Polity in a cosmic context

Comte had an acute feeling for the way humanity is dependent on astronomical conditions – assume small changes in the elliptical orbit of Earth, in the inclination of Ecliptic, and life, at least life as we know it, would have been impossible.... Read More | Share it now!

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