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The Essential Comte (RLE Social Theory): Selected from 'Cours de philosophie positive' by Auguste Comte book cover

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The Essential Comte (RLE Social Theory) Selected from 'Cours de philosophie positive' by Auguste Comte

Edited By Stanislav Andreski Copyright 2015
260 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge
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Auguste Comte proclaimed himself the founder of sociology and, on the whole, this claim is accepted. His most important work is the six-volume Cours de Philosophie Positive of which this present book is a selective abridgement. Comte, as this selection shows, was a methodological visionary. He was an eminently successful terminological innovator and to him we owe not only 'sociology' and... Read more

Introduction.  1. Course in Positive Philosophy  1.1. Aim of the Course  1.2. Plan of the Course  1.3. Philosophic Considerations on all Mathematical Science  1.4. Philosophic Considerations on Astronomical Science  1.5. Philosophic Considerations on Physics  1.6 Philosophic Considerations on Chemistry  1.7. Philosophic Considerations on Biological Science  1.8. Preliminary Considerations on the Necessity of Social Physics  1.9. Fundamental Characteristics of the Positive Method in the Study of Social Phenomena  1.10. Restrictions on the Historical Operation  1.11. Summary Appreciation on the Final Effect of Positive Philosophy  2. Contents of the Six Volumes of the Cours  3. Plan of the Cours

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