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    Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (French: [oˈɡyst kɔ̃t] ; 19 January 1798 – 30 September 1857) was a French philosopher, mathematician and...
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    by Auguste Comte. His school of sociological positivism holds that society, like the physical world, operates according to general laws. After Comte, positivist...
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    Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (7 November 1838 – 19 August 1889) was a French symbolist writer. His family called...
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    Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont (2 September 1773 – 27 October 1846) was a French general, diplomat and statesman who was named Marshal...
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    Auguste Charles Joseph de Flahaut de La Billarderie, Comte de Flahaut (21 April 1785 – 1 September 1870) was a French general during the Napoleonic Wars...
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    institutions unique to industrialized capitalist society (or modernity). Auguste Comte believed that society constitutes a separate "level" of reality, distinct...
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  • Sociology of sociology http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/comte/ Stanford Encyclopaedia: Auguste Comte Wacquant, Loic. 1992. "Positivism." In Bottomore, Tom...
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    d'Auguste Comte, also known as the Musée Auguste Comte, is a private writer's house museum and archive dedicated to positivist philosopher Auguste Comte (1798–1857)...
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  • that Diderot had worked on for twenty years was ruined beyond repair. Auguste Comte (1798–1857) was a philosopher born in Montpellier. He was the founder...
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    this Scottish tradition. Later thinkers such as Comte de Saint-Simon developed these ideas. Auguste Comte in particular presented a coherent view of social...
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    tempestuous marriage with the philosopher Auguste Comte during the most creative period of his life. Comte was mentally unstable and had jealous fantasies...
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    'knowledge'). In 1838, the French scholar Auguste Comte ultimately gave sociology the definition that it holds today. Comte had earlier expressed his work as...
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  • northern France Comté cheese, a cheese from Franche-Comté, eastern France Alfred Comte (1895–1965), Swiss aviation pioneer Auguste Comte (1798–1857), French...
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    "Auguste Comte et Joseph de Maistre". In: Etudes Suisses de l'Histoire Générale, XIV, pp. 103–138. Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1903). The Philosophy of Auguste...
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    independently by French philosopher of science Auguste Comte (1798–1857) in 1838 as a new way of looking at society.: 10  Comte had earlier used the term social physics...
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    Religion of Humanity (category Auguste Comte)
    l'Humanité or église positiviste) is a secular religion created by Auguste Comte (1798–1857), the founder of positivist philosophy. Adherents of this...
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    Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon (17 October 1760 – 19 May 1825), better known as Henri de Saint-Simon (French: [ɑ̃ʁi də sɛ̃ simɔ̃]), was...
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  • tradition. Later thinkers such as Comte de Saint-Simon (1760–1825) developed these ideas.[citation needed] Auguste Comte (1798–1857) in particular presented...
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  • speculation was avoided. Auguste Comte used the term science sociale to describe the field, taken from the ideas of Charles Fourier; Comte also referred to the...
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    the writings of others, notably William Whewell, John Herschel, and Auguste Comte, and research carried out for Mill by Alexander Bain. He engaged in...
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    Hierarchy of the sciences (category Auguste Comte)
    The hierarchy of the sciences is a theory formulated by Auguste Comte in the 19th century. This theory states that science develops over time beginning...
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  • Law of three stages (category Auguste Comte)
    The law of three stages is an idea developed by Auguste Comte in his work The Course in Positive Philosophy. It states that society as a whole, and each...
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  • published. Auguste Comte published Volume 5 of The Course of Positive Philosophy: La Partie Historique De La Philosophie Sociale Auguste Comte publishes...
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    a secular religion influenced by the thinking of French philosopher Auguste Comte. In the late 20th century the Humanist movement came into conflict with...
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    revolutionary democrat, materialist philosopher, critic, and socialist. Auguste Comte (1798–1857): French positivist thinker, credited with coining the term...
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    legitimate science. He refined the positivism originally set forth by Auguste Comte, promoting what could be considered as a form of epistemological realism...
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    sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rarely for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support...
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  • autrui, 'other people', derived from Latin alter 'other') was coined by Auguste Comte, the French founder of positivism, in order to describe the ethical...
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  • Reason and Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science. In 19th century Auguste Comte made a major contribution to the theory of science. The 19th century...
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  • A closely related idea (originating in the nineteenth century with Auguste Comte) is that scientific disciplines can be arranged into a hierarchy of...
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