Comte, (Isidore-) Auguste (-Marie-François-Xavier)
- Comte, (Isidore-) Auguste (-Marie-François-Xavier)
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born Jan. 19, 1798, Montpellier, France
died Sept. 5, 1857, Paris
A disciple of Henri de Saint-Simon, he taught at the École Polytechnique (1832–42) but gave free lectures to workingmen. He gave the science of sociology its name and established the new subject on a conceptual (though not empirical) basis, believing that social phenomena could be reduced to laws just as natural phenomena could. His ideas influenced
John Stuart Mill (who supported him financially for many years), Émile Durkheim, Herbert Spencer, and Edward Burnett Tylor. His most important works are
Cours de philosophie positive (6 vol., 1830–42) and
Système de politique positive (4 vol., 1851–54).
Comte, drawing by Tony Toullion, 19th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
H. Roger-Viollet
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Universalium.
2010.
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