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5 unusual facts about Auguste Comte


Alberto Guerrero

Guerrero was also known for his keen intellect and eloquence vis–à–vis painting, poetry, and philosophy (Comte, Husserl, Sartre).

Alfredo Pimenta

He suggested a reconciliation between the theses of Auguste Comte and the neo-Thomists.

Auguste Comte

During that time Comte published his first essays in the various publications headed by Saint-Simon, L'Industrie, Le Politique, and L'Organisateur (Charles Dunoyer and Charles Comte's Le Censeur Européen), although he would not publish under his own name until 1819's "La séparation générale entre les opinions et les désirs" ("The general separation of opinions and desires").

(3) In the Scientific stage, which came into being after the failure of the revolution and of Napoleon, people could find solutions to social problems and bring them into force despite the proclamations of human rights or prophecy of the will of God. Science started to answer questions in full stretch.

Ausonio Franchi

Combining Kant's phenomenalism and Comte's positivism, he falls into a sort of relativism and agnosticism.


Adrien-Jean-Pierre Thilorier

The French positivist Auguste Comte was so impressed by Thilorier's investigations of gases that he devoted the twentieth day of the ninth month of his positivist calendar to British chemist John Dalton -- and to Thilorier.

Renzo Novatore

And so he is critical of thinkers such as "Darwin, Comte, Spencer and Marx" which he sees as sociologists who will tend to not being "able to understand the varied, the particular,... sacrifices the one or the other on the altar of the universal."

Social Darwinism

In many ways, Spencer's theory of cosmic evolution has much more in common with the works of Lamarck and Auguste Comte's positivism than with Darwin's.

Teófilo Braga

It was the teacher's curious spirit and admiration of Auguste Comte and Émile Littré that influenced Teófilo during this period.


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Akshay Kumar Datta

Deeply influenced by Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, John Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley and Rammohan Roy, he was among the first few men in modern India who had presented an empiricist critique of the ancient Indian philosophies.