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I found this to be very succinct and readable. It's a hard subject to find original material on but worth the search. Auguste Compte is the creator of sociology and logical positivism. He is one of histories greatest philosphers and like Epicurus, he rarely gets credit for his contibutions to empirical philosophy. He lived in France the mid 19th century and his thoery of logical positivism is a natural progression of Cartesian philosophy laid out in Rene Descartes "Discourse on Method" Unfortunately it is very hard to find original sources of Auguste Compte's work in English. After much searching I was able to procure original copies of his two most famous English protoges:
John Stuart Mill who wrote down Auguste Compte's Positive Philosophy in English in 1866, there is also a two volume work by Harriet Matineau written in 1853. The paperback "An introduction to Positive Philosophy" is a succinct intoduction to Positive Philosophy
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In order to explain properly the true nature and peculiar character of the positive philosophy, it is indispensable that we should first take a brief survey of the progressive growth of the human mind viewed as a whole; for no idea can be properly understood apart from its history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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In order to explain properly the true nature and peculiar character of the positive philosophy, it is indispensable that we should first take a brief survey of the progressive growth of the human mind viewed as a whole; for no idea can be properly understood apart from its history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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- The Positive Philosophy (Language, man, and society: foundations of the behavioral sciences) by Auguste Comte in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 14
- Comte and Mill by Thomas Whittaker in Front Matter
- Auguste Comte and Positivism by John Stuart Mill in Front Matter
- The Catechism of Positive Religion by Auguste Comte in Front Matter
- System Of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte in Front Matter
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- Theories of Development by Richard Peet Phd on page 66, and Back Matter
- Placing Aesthetics: Reflections On Philosophic Tradition (Series In Continental Thought) by Robert E. Wood in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Christianity & Western Thought, Volume 2: Faith & Reason in the 19th Century by Alan G. Padgett in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Nietzsche and Science by Gregory Moore on page 127, and Back Matter
- Modern Geographical Thought by Richard Peet on page 23, and Back Matter
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