THE first edition of Miss Martineau's version of the “Positive Philosophy” was published in the autumn of 1853. The considerable space of time which has since elapsed cannot have been due to any ...

POSITIVISM has been defined as the “system of philosophy which limits itself to the study of phenomena and the laws which regulate them”. Comte, who built up this system, declared that the knowledge ...

— 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 à Henry ...

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 father ...

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 ...

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