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Description: Brief article discussing the French philosophers contributions to the field now known as sociology.
Biographies: Philosophers: Auguste Comte (1798-1857). Comte, a French philosopher, was the founder of Positivism. Positivism is a philosophical system of thought maintaining that the goal of knowledge is simply to describe the phenomena experienced, not to question whether it exists or not. Comte sought to apply the methods of observation and experimentation, as was beginning to be used in the hard sciences, to a field that we now know as sociology. He believed that the solution of persistent social problems might be had by the application of certain hierarchical rules; he believed in the progress of mankind toward a superior state of civilization by means of the science of sociology, itself. (
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| Page title: | Biographies: Philosophers: Auguste Comte (1798-1857). |
| Keywords: | Auguste, Comte, philosophy, Positivism |
| Description: | Comte, a French philosopher, was the founder of Positivism. Positivism is a philosophical system of thought maintaining that the goal of knowledge is simply to describe the phenomena experienced, not to question whether it exists or not. ... Comte's cardinal position was this: 'The greatest problem, then, is to raise social feeling by artificial effort to the position which in the natural condition is held by selfish feeling.' To which Stephen responded, 'To me this is like saying, the great object of mechanics is to alter the laws of gravitation.' |
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