Auguste Comte
(1798-1857)
Auguste Comte was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer who formulated the doctrine of
positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term. Comte's ideas also fundamental to the development of sociology, with him inventing the name Sociology for the new science and treating it as the crowning achievement of the sciences.
Comte hoped his new ideas of a social science would remedy the social disorder caused by the French Revolution. His concept of Sociology and social evolutionism set the tone for early social theorists and anthropologists such as
Herbert Spencer, leading to modern academic sociology presented by Émile Durkheim as practical and objective social research.
Comte's social theories culminated in his "Religion of Humanity", jointly developed with John Stuart Mill, which led to the development of non-theistic secular humanism in the 19th century.
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