Friday, September 22nd, 2023

Auguste Comte


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Auguste Comte (1798-1857) Biography by Peter Landry

Modern History Sourcebook: Auguste Comte (1798-1857): A General View of Positivism

A General View of Positivism taken from A General View of Positivism, translated by J H Bridges, Robert Speller and Sons, 1957, by Andy Blunden

The Positivist Calendar Excerpted from System of Positive Polity, Vol. IV (London, 1877), pp. 116f, 346f.

Lecture 25: The Age of Ideologies (3): The World of Auguste Comte (from The History Guide’s Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History)