When1: 1830
When2: 1854
Who: Auguste Comte [Comte, Auguste]
What: philosopher/sociologist
Where: Paris, France
works\ Course of Positive Philosophy [1842]; System of Positive Polity [1851 to 1854]
Detail: He lived 1798 to 1857 and founded sociology. He invented theories of social order and societal progress.
Epistemology
Phenomena have verifiable procedures {positivism, Comte}. Sciences have methods and principles. Scientific knowledge is finding principles in life's activities. Scientific laws are descriptions for predictions. Positivism depends on empiricism. Sciences move through stages until phenomena have verifiable procedures. Sciences form a hierarchy, with ethics at top.
Ethics
Altruism is the best ethic, is the religion of humanity, and depends on science.
Politics
Societies develop progressively through medieval theological stage, metaphysical or deist stage, and positivist stages. Society depends on social impulses, not self-interest {catechism of positivism}.
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