Introduction to Positive Philosophy

Introduction to Positive Philosophy
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Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Total Pages : 90
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Synopsis Introduction to Positive Philosophy by : Auguste Comte

Contents: Introduction Selected Bibliography Works by Comte in English Translation Works about Comte in English I. The Nature and Importance of the Positive Philosophy II. The Classification of the Positive Sciences Index

Positive Philosophy

Positive Philosophy
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Total Pages : 858
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Synopsis Positive Philosophy by : Auguste Comte

The Grounding of Positive Philosophy

The Grounding of Positive Philosophy
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 9780791479940
ISBN-13 : 0791479943
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Synopsis The Grounding of Positive Philosophy by : F. W. J. Schelling

The Berlin lectures in The Grounding of Positive Philosophy, appearing here for the first time in English, advance Schelling's final "existential system" as an alternative to modernity's reduction of philosophy to a purely formal science of reason. The onetime protégé of Fichte and benefactor of Hegel, Schelling accuses German Idealism of dealing "with the world of lived experience just as a surgeon who promises to cure your ailing leg by amputating it." Schelling's appeal in Berlin for a positive, existential philosophy found an interested audience in Kierkegaard, Engels, Feuerbach, Marx, and Bakunin. His account of the ecstatic nature of existence and reason proved to be decisive for the work of Paul Tillich and Martin Heidegger. Also, Schelling's critique of reason's quixotic attempt at self-grounding anticipates similar criticisms leveled by poststructuralism, but without sacrificing philosophy's power to provide a positive account of truth and meaning. The Berlin lectures provide fascinating insight into the thought processes of one of the most provocative yet least understood thinkers of nineteenth-century German philosophy.

Love, Order, and Progress

Love, Order, and Progress
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Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages : 364
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ISBN-13 : 0822983419
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Synopsis Love, Order, and Progress by : Michel Bourdeau

Auguste Comte's doctrine of positivism was both a philosophy of science and a political philosophy designed to organize a new, secular, stable society based on positive or scientific, ideas, rather than the theological dogmas and metaphysical speculations associated with the ancien regime. This volume offers the most comprehensive English-language overview of Auguste Comte's philosophy, the relation of his work to the sciences of his day, and the extensive, continuing impact of his thinking on philosophy and especially secular political movements in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Contributors consider Comte’s reasons for establishing a Religion of Humanity as well as his views on domestic life and the arts in his positivist utopia. The volume further details Comte's attempt to apply his "positive method," first to social science and then to politics and morality, thereby defending the continuity of his career while also critically examining the limits of his approach.

Auguste Comte and Positivism

Auguste Comte and Positivism
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Total Pages : 212
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Synopsis Auguste Comte and Positivism by : John Stuart Mill

The Essential Comte (RLE Social Theory)

The Essential Comte (RLE Social Theory)
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9781317651932
ISBN-13 : 1317651936
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Synopsis The Essential Comte (RLE Social Theory) by : Stanislav Andreski

Auguste Comte proclaimed himself the founder of sociology and, on the whole, this claim is accepted. His most important work is the six-volume Cours de Philosophie Positive of which this present book is a selective abridgement. Comte, as this selection shows, was a methodological visionary. He was an eminently successful terminological innovator and to him we owe not only 'sociology' and 'positivism' but also 'biology' and 'altruism'. Professor Andreski, in his lucid introduction, assesses Comte's place under six headings, as scientist, philosopher, sociological theorist, sociological historian, reformer and methodologist. But this selection from Comte's works will be most welcomed because it provides a modern English translation of the main body of his thought.

Theory and Reality

Theory and Reality
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 412
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ISBN-10 : 9780226771137
ISBN-13 : 022677113X
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Synopsis Theory and Reality by : Peter Godfrey-Smith

How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is “really” like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of more than a hundred years of debate about science. The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the philosophy of science. Examples and asides engage the beginning student, a glossary of terms explains key concepts, and suggestions for further reading are included at the end of each chapter. Like no other text in this field, Theory and Reality combines a survey of recent history of the philosophy of science with current key debates that any beginning scholar or critical reader can follow. The second edition is thoroughly updated and expanded by the author with a new chapter on truth, simplicity, and models in science.

Auguste Comte and Positivism

Auguste Comte and Positivism
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 911
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ISBN-10 : 9781351315265
ISBN-13 : 1351315269
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Synopsis Auguste Comte and Positivism by : Gertrud Lenzer

Although Auguste Comte is conventionally acknowledged as one of the founders of sociology and as a key representative of positivism, few new editions of his writings have been published in the English language in this century. He has become virtually dissociated from the history of modern positivism and the most recent debates about it. Gertrud Lenzer maintains that the work of Comte is, for better or for worse, essential to an understanding of the modern period of positivism. This collection provides new access to the work of Comte and gives practitioners of various disciplines the possibility of reassessing concepts that were first introduced in Comte's writings. Today much of the ordinary business of academic disciplines is conducted under the assumption that the realm of science is essentially separate from the realms of politics and science. A close reading of Comte will reveal how deeply such current ideas and theories were originally embedded in a particular political context. One of his central methodological principles was that the theory of society had to be removed from the arena of political practice precisely in order to control that practice by means of these same sciences. It is in Comte's work that the reader will be able to observe how the forces of social and political reaction began to be powerfully organized to combat the critical forces in its own and later eras. Auguste Comte and Positivism will be of importance to the work of philosophers, sociologists, political theorists, and historians.