Auguste comte

Auguste Comte

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  • Birth

    Isidore-Auguste-Marie-François-Xavier Comte was born on January 19, 1798, in Montpellier, France to Louis and Rosalie Boyer Comte. From a young age, Comte rejected his parents' beliefs. At the age of 16, he enrolled at the École Polytechnique, a school for advanced sciences in Paris, the city of love, where Auguste Comte would make his mark on the philosophy of science.

  • Positive Philosophy

    At the end of a 12 year period starting in 1830, Comte published all six volumes of his work, Course of Positive Philosophy.

  • Death of Clotilde de Vaux

    The death of his lover, Clotilde de Vaux, propelled Comte to complete his formulation of sociology, System of Positive Polity.

  • Religion of Humanity

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhVamhT4Q3s

  • Major Works

    Comte’s most important works are:
    Course on Positive Philosophy (1830–1842, six volumes, translated and condensed by Harriet Martineau as The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte); System of Positive Polity (1851–1854, four volumes); and the Early Writings (1820–1829)

  • Death

    On September 5, 1857, Auguste Comte died in Paris, France of cancer.