A General View of Positivism (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Comte, Auguste

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330934326 ISBN 13 : 9781330934326

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how Positivism aims to blend order with progress and guide social renewal. This book outlines a practical program for transforming society through a new spiritual power, educated leadership, and a revised balance between science, politics, and morality. It presents clear aims, scope, and methods for applying Positivist principles to government, education, and culture without relying on metaphysical systems.

Positivism is shown as neither atheism nor fatalism, but a framework that treats social order as mrivable and moral. The text emphasizes guiding principles over dogma, with a steady progression from scientific understanding to public action. It discusses the role of the working classes, women, and art in shaping a society organized around liberty, order, and collective welfare. The focus is on practical results—how ideas translate into institutions, education, and national life.

• How science-informed ethics shapes public policy and political practice


• The planned role of the working class and education in building public opinion


• Ways to separate theoretical knowledge from political power to protect moral aims


• How art, family life, and gender relations fit into a humane, orderly vision

Ideal for readers of philosophy, social theory, and history who want a concise view of Positivism’s program for social reform and its vision of a religion of humanity.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from A General View of Positivism

The object of Philosophy is to present a systematic view of human life as a basis for modifying its imperfections; The Theological Synthesis failed to include the practical side of human nature; But the Positive spirit originated in practical life; In human nature, and therefore in the Positive system, Affection is the preponderating element; The proper function of Intellect is the service of the Social Sympathies; Under Theology the Intellect was the slave of the Heart; under Positivism, its servant; The subordination of the Intellect to the Heart is the subjective principle of Positivism; Objective basis of the system: Order of the external World, as revealed by Science; By it the selfish affections are controlled; the unselfish strengthened; Our conception of this External Order has been gradually growing from the earliest times, and is but just complete; Even where not modifiable, its influence on the character is of the greatest value; But in most cases we can modify it; and in those the knowledge of it forms the systematic basis of human action; The chief difficulty of the Positive Synthesis was to complete our conception of the External Order by extending it to Social Phenomena; By the discovery of sociological laws social questions are made paramount; and thus our subjective principle is satisfied without danger to free thought; Distinction between Abstract and Concrete laws. It is the former only that we require for the purpose before us; In our Theory of Development the required Synthesis of Abstract conceptions already exists; Therefore we are in a position to proceed at once with the work of social regeneration; Error of identifying Positivism with Atheism, Materialism, Fatalism, or Optimism. Atheism, like Theology, discusses insoluble mysteries

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330934326
• ISBN 13: 9781330934326
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible