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Collegiate timeframe
Auguste Comte attended École Polytechnique to originally be a mathematician and scientist. He left on his own accord prior to graduating to study economics, history and philosophy. Due to this change and influence by Henri de Saint-Simon, he became a secretary for a well renowned author. -
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Social Doctrine
Auguste Comte developed social doctrine with mane French intellectuals. Through these lectures, he produced the six-volume Course of Positive Philosophy. This described and argued that "the physical world, society operated under its own set of laws". This created the formulation of religion of humanity, wanting to focus on a religion of morality. Resource:
Biography.com Editors. “Auguste Comte.” Biography, 2 Apr. 2014, www.biography.com/scholar/auguste-comte. -
System of Positive Polity
This will describe the System of Positive Polity and other works he has created: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofmnGmI115E -
Système de politique positive, 4 vol.
Auguste Comte completed a volume of books to initiate the start of sociology. The event process and books focused on "morality and moral progress as the central preoccupation of human knowledge and effort and gave an account of the polity, or political organization, that this required" (Britannica). Resource:
Barnes, H. (1998). Auguste Comte. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved June 23, 2022, from https://www.britannica.com/biography/Auguste-Comte