Auguste Comte

Auguste Comte’s positive philosophy, or positivism, abandoned speculation about the supernatural in favour of scientific investigation. According to Comte, knowledge of all subjects, from astronomy to sociology, should come from the correlation of empirical evidence. His systematic study of the statics and dynamics of society laid the foundations for modern sociology, which he first called social physics.

Hulton Deutsch

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Comte, Auguste; Sociology; Altruism

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