Cours de philosophie positive

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Cours de philosophie positive is Auguste Comte’s foundational multi-volume work that systematically presents his philosophy of positivism and the hierarchy of the sciences.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf book series
philosophical work
advocates classification of sciences
observation-based knowledge
author Auguste Comte
centralConcept empiricism
scientific method
countryOfOrigin France
defines hierarchy of the sciences
describedAs foundational work of positivist philosophy
fieldOfStudy astronomy
biology
chemistry
mathematics
physics
sociology
firstPublicationPlace Paris
genre philosophy
scientific treatise
hasPart Volume 1 of Cours de philosophie positive
Volume 2 of Cours de philosophie positive
Volume 3 of Cours de philosophie positive
Volume 4 of Cours de philosophie positive
Volume 5 of Cours de philosophie positive
Volume 6 of Cours de philosophie positive
hasTranslation The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte
influenced Herbert Spencer
John Stuart Mill NERFINISHED
development of sociology as a discipline
logical positivism
Émile Durkheim
mainSubject epistemology
hierarchy of the sciences
philosophy of science
positivism
sociology
numberOfVolumes 6
originalLanguage French
philosophicalSchool positivism
proposes law of three stages
publicationEndYear 1842
publicationStartYear 1830
publisher Bachelier
rejects metaphysics
theological explanations in science
timePeriod 19th century
translatedBy Harriet Martineau


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