Project Gutenberg 2010-04-04 Public domain in the USA. 108 Comte, Auguste 1798 1857 Comte, Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Compte, Auguste Comte, Isidore Auguste Marie Francois Xavier Cours de philosophie positive. (2/6) Produced by Sébastien Blondeel, Carlo Traverso, Rénald Lévesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) "Cours de Philosophie Positive" by Auguste Comte is a scientific publication written in the mid-19th century. This work reflects Comte's effort to develop a philosophy of science, emphasizing the importance of observational knowledge and systematic analysis. The book delves into the classification of sciences and seeks to establish a comprehensive framework for understanding the natural phenomena through a positivist lens. At the start of this second volume, Comte introduces his examination of astronomical philosophy, arguing that astronomy stands out as the sole branch of natural philosophy that is free from theological and metaphysical influence. He emphasizes the need to define the scope of astronomical knowledge and underlines that human understanding of celestial bodies is primarily based on visual observations, limiting the study to geometric and mechanical phenomena. Comte establishes a distinction between the perfect study of our solar system and the more complex, less understood sphere of the universe, setting the stage for a detailed exploration of astronomical laws and their philosophical implications in the following sections of his discourse. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr Positivism B Text FR Philosophie, Religion et Morale Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics Browsing: Psychiatry/Psychology Browsing: Religion/Spirituality/Paranormal 999098 996162 2024-09-13T12:11:10.170945 2023-09-14T06:24:19.113355 text/html text/html 959379 2010-04-04T10:31:50 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 306714 2010-04-04T10:31:50 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 378118 2024-09-13T12:11:19.153955 application/epub+zip 399723 2024-09-13T12:11:12.023957 application/epub+zip 399724 2024-09-13T12:11:10.968942 application/epub+zip 745521 2024-09-13T12:11:25.087887 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 717264 2024-09-13T12:11:18.430934 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 716813 2022-09-14T15:20:06.108117 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 972479 972209 2024-09-13T12:11:09.433983 2023-09-14T06:24:18.330353 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 941127 2010-04-04T10:31:48 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 301534 2010-04-04T10:31:50 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 19144 2024-09-13T12:11:25.216874 application/rdf+xml 15085 2024-09-13T12:11:11.317935 image/jpeg 3445 2024-09-13T12:11:11.141933 image/jpeg 371202 2024-09-13T12:11:10.249951 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia