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Father of Positivism
Auguste Comte was born on January 19, 1798, in Montpellier, France, and is well known for being the father of positivism. Positivism is described as, "Any system that confines itself to the data of experience and excludes a priori or metaphysical speculations. Comte’s positivism has three stages, theological, metaphysical, and positive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEtm7u9mRtY
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The Law of the Classification of Sciences
Comte tried to bring order amongst the scientific branches that seemed to be all mixed up. They move up through his law of the three stages until its ultimate completion of reaching the positive stage.
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Religion of Humanity
In 1849, Comte founded the Religion of Humanity. It was a secular religion. He felt society needed a new religion and took it upon himself to be the high priest of it. One of the works he wrote was the Catechism of Positive Religion. https://www.britannica.com/video/186415/Auguste-Comte-attempts-philosophy-humanity-religion
Comte, Auguste, and Richard Congreve. The Catechism of Positive Religion, Tr. from the French. Trübner & Co., 1883. -
Sociology
The term sociology was coined by Comte in 1838. It's described as a "Social science that studies human societies, their interactions, and the processes that preserve and change them. One of his major works was The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte. https://www.britannica.com/topic/sociology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnCJU6PaCio
Comte, Auguste, and Harriet Martineau. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte. Harriet Martineau, 1853.
