Auguste Comte

Auguste Comte

Who is Auguste Comte? What is his philisopy about? And where Auguste Comte from ? do you know  his historical life? these are all of this is question this is the answer

Auguste Comte is a French philosopher, in full Isidore-Auguste-Marie-Francois-Xavier Comte, he was born January 19, 1798, Montpellier . France, he is known as the founder of sociology and positivism. Comte gave the science of sociology its name and established the new subject in a systematic fashion.Auguste Comte’s philosophy is all about  positivism Positivism describes an approach to the study of society that specifically utilizes scientific evidence like as experiments, statistics and qualitative results to reveal a truth about the way society operates and functions. It is based on the assumption that it is possible to observe social life and establish reliable, valid knowledge about how it works.The term was born during the 19th century when Auguste Comte revealed his ideas in his books The Course in Positive Philosophy and A General View of Positivism.

The theory is that this knowledge can then be used to affect the course of social change and improve the human condition. Positivism also argues that sociology should concern itself only with what can be observed with the senses and that theories of social life should be built in a rigid, linear, and methodical way on a base of verifiable fact. Comte’s father, Louis , a government tax official, and his mother, Rosalie (Boyer) Comte, were both monarchists and devout Roman Catholics. While attending the university of Montpellier, Comte abandoned these attitudes in favor of republicanism inspired by the French Revolution, which would influence his later work.

In 1814, he entered Ecole  Polytechnique and proved to be a brilliant mathematician and scientist. He left school before graduating and settled in Paris with no viable way to support himself . He earned a meager living teaching mathematics and journalism while deep in study of economics, history and philosophy. Free on his own, Comte developed a social doctrine based on scientific principles. In 1826, he began presenting a series of lectures to group of distinguished French intellectuals. However, about one- third of the way through the lectures series, he suffered a hospitalization over the next 15 years, he produced his major work, the six- volume Course of the Positive Philosophy. In this work, Comte argued that, like the physical world, society operated under its own set of laws.

Comte’s effort furthered the study of society and the development of sociology .during this time, he supported  himself with a post at Ecole polytechnique , but clashed with administrator and was dismissed in 1842. That same year, he divorced his  wife, Caroline Massin Comte, after 17 years of acrimonious marriage . From the on he relied on his friends and benefactors to support him.

In 1844, Comte became involved with Clotilde de Vaux,  a French aristocrat and writer. Because she wasn’t divorced from her philandering husband her relationship with Comte remained platonic, thought the two were deeply in love. After her death, in 1846, Comte wrote the system of positive polity. In his formulation of “ religion of humanity,” Comte proposed a religious order based on reason and humanity, emphasizing morality as the cornerstone of human political organization.