PhilosophersAuguste Comte
Auguste Comte
Know only facts: the positive age of science.
Positivism1798 – 1857 FrancePositivist philosopherFounder of sociologyFormer student of the École polytechniqueFounder of the Religion of Humanity
Inspirations
Bacon no real knowledge except what rests on observed facts
Hume he calls him his main philosophical forerunner
Montesquieu seeking the laws of societies as one seeks those of nature
Condorcetthe idea of a progress of the human mind by stages
Saint-Simonhis employer and master, from whom he breaks
Heirs
John Stuart Milladmires the Course, rejects the late politics and religion
Émile Littréa disciple faithful to the Course, not to the religion
Durkheimmakes sociology a science in its own right
Nietzsche after the death of God, do not keep his shadow
criticHusserla science of mere facts forgets meaning
criticPopperthere is no law of history
criticSimilar and opposite philosophers
how it is computedClosest
Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) Teaches that what we call "self" is made of passing elements, with no permanent self (anatta). His exact dates are debated.
86 %Jürgen Habermas A rule is just if everyone it affects could accept it in a free discussion.
86 %Pierre Kropotkine Mutual aid, as much as struggle, is a factor of evolution: sociability lies at the root of morality.
86 %John Dewey Human nature supplies raw materials; customs, education and institutions give them shape.
84 %