Auguste Comte and Positivism

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - *Non-fiction, Philosophy, Religion, Biography & Autobiography, History, Science, Self-Help

Authors: John Stuart Mill In Year : 1865

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Auguste Comte and Positivism

01 - Part 1A
02 - Part 1B
03 - Part 1C
04 - Part 1D
05 - Part 1E
06 - Part 1F
07 - Part 1G
08 - Part 2A
09 - Part 2B
10 - Part 2C
11 - Part 2D
12 - Part 2E

Part 1 lays out the framework for Positivism as originated in France by Auguste Comte in his Cours de Philosophie Positive. Mill examines the tenets of Comte's movement and alerts us to defects. Part 2 concerns all Comte's writings except the Cours de Philosophie Positive. During Comte's later years he gave up reading newspapers and periodicals to keep his mind pure for higher study. He also became enamored of a certain woman who changed his view of life. Comte turned his philosophy into a religion, with morality the supreme guide. Mill finds that Comte learned to despise science and the intellect, instead substituting his frantic need for the regulation of change. (Summary by Bill Boerst)