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Key work
Auguste Comte wrote his major piece, the "Course of Positive Philosophy", in 1826. The six volume society and law work concentrated on society and the laws that pertain to it compared to the natural spectrum. The Law of three stages stages: the theological, the metaphysical, and the positive. Each being a necessary part of life. The first is the search and creator, then more rational thought about creation, ending with the strict law that governs reality. -
Approximate Birth of Positivism
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Epistemology of Positivism
Comte is recognized as having coined the term Positivism as he envisioned the scientific method as replacing metaphysics and theology. Science then should replace theology and metaphysics. Comte developed his theory of a universal law, base-lining that change was inevitable and could not be reversed. Historical context is a must for positivistic theory for the definition of science. -
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Relevant Contributions to the Philosophy of Science (key 1)
There are three successive stages according to Comte : the theological, the metaphysical, and the positive. The first is the necessary starting point for the human mind; the last, its normal state; the second is but a transitory stage. In the theological stage, Comte explains that the human mind, in its search for the primary and final causes of phenomena, describes discrepancies in the universe as interventions of supernatural phenomena. (Oberhelman, 2001). -
Major Work
Comte, Auguste. System of Positive Polity. Auguste Comte, 1851
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