Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte, better known as Auguste Comte, was a French philosopher. He was a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism. He is sometimes regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionSociologist
Date of Birth17 February 1798
CountryFrance
Auguste Comte quotes about
kings humanity atheism
To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
childhood illusion
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
know-yourself improving-yourself knows
Know yourself to improve yourself.
three abstract metaphysical
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
order goal progress
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
science sound kind
Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.
atheism destroyed replaced
Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
excluded language word
The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy.
certain determination exist means object phenomena relations science
Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them.