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Auguste Comte

By MariRodgers86

  • Auguste Comte

    Auguste Comte
    Auguste Comte born Isidore Marie Auguste-Francois -Xavier Comte was born January 19, 1798 in Montpellier France.

  • Rebel in the Making

    Rebel in the Making
    Comte's childhood showed signs that he would be a forward thinking, as he rejected Roman Catholicism at an early age. He studied philosophy and history.

  • Comte, Auguste; religion of humanity"

    [https://www.britannica.com/video/186415/Auguste-Comte-attempts-philosophy-humanity-religion]

  • Law of Three Stages

    Law of Three Stages
    Auguste Comte coined the Law of three stages showing the evolution of man in regards to intellectual and social growth. The three stage were The Theological (fictitious), the Metaphysical (abstract) and the Scientific (positive). With each stage man evolved from the cave man to the scientist.

  • Theological Stage

    Theological Stage
    1. Theological stage : Age of Enlightenment, man believed what he was taught. ( discovering absolute knowledge) • Fetishism- believe that inanimate objects hold power. • Polytheism- multiple God’s held the power. • Monotheism- One God is the Center of all Power.

  • Metaphysical Stage

    Metaphysical Stage
    2.Metaphysical stage: the middles ages/ Renaissance where people started reasoning and questioning ideas, they were no longer dependent on imagination. ( Transition phase) Started thinking about abstract entities.

  • Positive Stage

    Positive Stage
    1. Positive stage: Scientific stage, now people could find a solution to their problems by observing and forcing assertions. Stage of logic and reason.

  • Father of Sociology

    Father of Sociology
    Comet founded sociology and positivism. He began a series of lectures on his "system of positive philosophy."

  • "The Positive Philosphy of Auguste Comte"

    "The Positive Philosphy of Auguste Comte"
    After he had a little mental breakdown, he devoted himself to his work's of philosophy "Cours de philosophie positive" which took six volumes.

  • Comte the Forward thinker

    Comte the Forward thinker
    Comte was a French Philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is the first philosopher of science in the modern sense. The big daddy of Sociology. So, Comte established positive philosophy in an attempt to remedy the social disorder of the French Revolution. Comte first described the epistemological perspective of positivism in The Course in Positive Philosophy.

  • Postivisit Calendar

    Postivisit Calendar
    Comte proposed a calendar reform with 13 month and 28 days!! JUST A FUN FACT!!

  • In Memory of Clotide de Vaux

    In Memory of Clotide de Vaux
    Comte devoted his work to "System of Positive Polity", which further solidified the idea of sociology.

  • The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte translated by Harriet Martineau

    The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte translated by Harriet Martineau
    "If it is true that every theory must be based upon observed facts, it is equally true that facts cannot be observed without the guidance of some theories. Without such guidance, our facts would be desultory and fruitless; we could not retain them: for the most part we could not even perceive them." Comte(PG 26)

  • RIP FATHER OF SOCIOLOGY

    RIP FATHER OF SOCIOLOGY
    Comte died of cancer in 1857 in Paris, France on September 5, 1857.

  • Bibliography

    Biblography
    Comte, A. b (1974 reprint). The positive philosophy of Auguste Comte freely translated and condensed by Harriet Martineau. New York: AMS Press. (Original work published in 1855, New York: Calvin Blanchard, p. 27.b)
    Ronald Fletcher and Harry Elmer Barnes. Auguste Comte. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2019
    www.britannica.com/biography/Auguste-Comte Accessed 22 No., 2019

  • Bibliography

    Rashi Priya. YourArticleLibrary. Law of Three Stages: The Corner Stone of Auguste Comte’s www.yourarticlelibrary.com/sociology/law-of-three-stages-the-corner-stone-of-auguste-comtes/43729