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Auguste Comte and Positivism
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Title: Auguste Comte and Positivism
Author: John-Stuart Mill
Release Date: October 9, 2005 [EBook #16833]
Language: English
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AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM
BY
JOHN STUART MILL
1865.
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PART I.
THE COURS DE PHILOSOPHIE POSITIVE.
For some time much has been said, in England and on the Continent, concerning "Positivism" and "the Positive Philosophy." Those phrases, which during the life of the eminent thinker who introduced them had made their way into no writings or discussions but those of his very few direct disciples, have emerged from the depths and manifested themselves on the surface of the philosophy of the age. It is not very widely known what they represent, but it is understood that they represent something. They are symbols of a recognised mode of thought, and one of sufficient importance to induce almost all who now discuss the great problems of philosophy, or survey from any elevated point of view the opinions of the age, to take what is termed the Positivist view of th