The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte: Volume 2 - Couverture souple

Comte, Auguste

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108001203 ISBN 13 : 9781108001205

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Comte's 'doctrine' of positivism, popular in the nineteenth century, anticipated today's secular humanism.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte is a condensed English version of the French philosopher's controversial work, freely translated by Harriet Martineau and published in two volumes in 1853. Martineau's abridged and more easily digestible version of Comte's work was intended to be readily accessible to a wide general readership, particularly those she felt to be morally and intellectually adrift, and Comte's philosophy indeed attracted a significant following in Britain in the later nineteenth century. Comte's 'doctrine' promoted personal and public ethics and social cohesion based no longer on metaphysics but on strict scientific method, and anticipated twentieth-century logical positivism and secular humanism. The second volume of this translation is devoted entirely to Comte's new science of 'social physics' and human progress, and outlines his theories about society and its development through various phases - theological, humanistic and finally scientific.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108001203
• ISBN 13: 9781108001205
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 584
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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