Auguste Comte

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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte by Tony Touillon.
Born19 Januar 1798(1798-01-19)
Montpellier, Fraunce
Dee'd5 September 1857(1857-09-05) (aged 59)
Paris, Fraunce
NaitionalityFrench
Notable ideas
Positivism, law o three stages, encyclopedic law, altruism

Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (19 Januar 1798 – 5 September 1857), better kent as Auguste Comte (French: [oɡyst kɔ̃t]), wis a French philosopher. He wis a foonder o the discipline o sociology an o the doctrine o positivism.

References[eedit | eedit soorce]

  1. Sutton, Michael (1982). Nationalism, Positivism, and Catholicism. The Politics of Charles Maurras and French Catholics 1890–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521228689. esp. Chapters 1 and 2