Auguste Comte developed a way of thinking that says you should have evidence and reasons for what you believe. Comte had a big effect on how people in the 19th century thought. He came up with ...

Originally organised by the English Positivist Society in the 1930s, the Auguste Comte Memorial Lectures are now hosted by LSE Philosophy, where they provide a public platform for some of the world’s ...

Comte, who built up this system, declared that the knowledge of phenomena is relative, not absolute; he anticipated Einstein by a century in the promulgation of the doctrine of relativity ...

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So excellently were the translation and condensation accomplished by Miss Martineau, that Comte substituted her two volumes for his own six volumes, and since Comte's death the work has actually ...

Auguste Comte, the founder of modern sociology, coined the phrase “social physics” back in the 19th century. Comte and others in that era aspired to explain social reality by developing a set of ...

Like ‘empathy’, ‘altruism’ is a modern term, coined by the philosopher Auguste Comte (d. 1857) from the French autrui, which itself derives from the Latin alteri [other people].

One could both smile and sigh, to use old Thomas Fuller’s phrase, at the homage paid to the founder of the Religion of Humanity by two American disciples, as shown in Lettres d’Auguste Comte ...

Two new books use the latest brain science to figure out what makes us behave selflessly – and also suggest practical steps for encouraging it IN 1851, Auguste Comte, the French philosopher and ...