If Auguste Comte is known as the inventor of sociology, he is less well known as utopian thinker. Indeed recent surveys and discussions of utopism exclude his work entirely. This article examines ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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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Founded in 1876, the Revue Philosophique publishes four issues per year. Most are issues devoted either to a fundamental notion, or to a great period in the history of thought, or to an author - ...