Project Gutenberg 2016-08-23 Public domain in the USA. 67 Comte, Auguste 1798 1857 Comte, Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Compte, Auguste Comte, Isidore Auguste Marie Francois Xavier Cours de philosophie positive. (5/6) Reading ease score: 8.4 (Professional level). Extremely difficult to read. Produced by Sébastien Blondeel, Carlo Traverso, Hans Pieterse 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) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) "Cours de philosophie positive" by Auguste Comte is a scientific publication written in the mid-19th century. This work lays the groundwork for the field of sociology and aims to delineate the stages of human thought and societal development, focusing particularly on the theological and metaphysical states of human evolution. The book is structured as a series of lessons that collectively aspire to advance a systematic understanding of social phenomena. At the start of this extensive examination, Comte introduces the overarching themes of historical analysis applied to sociology. He emphasizes the importance of focusing primarily on the most advanced social series, specifically the white race and Western Europe, while acknowledging the limitations imposed by this approach. Comte discusses the essential nature of the theological state, particularly fétichisme, as the initial level of human intellectual development, arguing that this primitive form of belief was foundational for future theological constructs. The opening outlines a clear methodology for interpreting social evolution, setting the stage for the more intricate philosophical arguments to follow in subsequent lessons. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr Positivism B Text FR Philosophie, Religion et Morale Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics Browsing: Religion/Spirituality/Paranormal 1171713 1171673 2024-10-22T05:31:42.469588 2023-09-23T03:54:50.673449 text/html text/html 1132010 2016-08-22T20:01:38 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 515984 2016-08-22T20:01:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 564936 2024-10-22T05:31:52.183541 application/epub+zip 584222 2024-10-22T05:31:44.068592 application/epub+zip 462917 2024-10-22T05:31:43.289587 application/epub+zip 900496 2024-10-22T05:31:59.169539 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 844168 2024-10-22T05:31:51.499560 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 723527 2022-09-24T01:54:39.575850 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1105927 1105635 2024-10-22T05:31:41.538656 2023-09-23T03:54:49.755429 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 1106167 2016-08-22T20:01:36 text/plain; charset=utf-8 345082 2016-08-22T20:01:40 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 20176 2024-10-22T05:31:59.317516 application/rdf+xml 13993 2024-10-22T05:31:43.408736 image/jpeg 2644 2024-10-22T05:31:43.349587 image/jpeg 526815 2024-10-22T05:31:42.569593 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