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Birthdate and Death date of a great philosopher
Auguste was born to the parents of Louis (a government tax official), and Rosalie in Montpellier, France.
Comte died of stomach cancer in Paris.
If you use the Revolutionary calendar he was born on the 20th of Jan.) -
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University
He attended Lycée Joffre and then the university of Montpellier, after he was admitted to École Polytechnique in Paris. -
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Close
École was closed in 1816, so he ended up taking permanent residence in Paris, he taught Journalism and mathematics there, which opened his thought process to think about the discern of History of Human Society. -
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Mentor
At the age of 19, Auguste met Henri de Saint-Simon ( a social theorist, the founder of European socialism) and became his secretary and collaborator. -
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Wedding bells
Auguste married Caroline Massin -
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Creation of a Social doctrine
Comte created a social doctrine based on scientific principles, he showed a series of lectures to French intellectuals. He ended up 1/3 of the way through the lectures suffering form a nervous breakdown which hospitalized him for 15 years. -
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Recovery
After being hospitalized for his nervous breakdown for 15 years in 1829, then continuing teaching his course, and publishing his 6 volumes on Course on Positivity. -
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Teachings
He became a tutor and then later an examiner and entered an argument with the school and lost his job. -
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Course of Positive Philosophy
Being hospitalized for 15 years he ended up creating his major work, the six-volume Course of Positive Philosophy, this was where he argued about the physical world and society being operated under its own laws. -
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Separation, Affair, and the creation of the "New Supreme Being"
He separated from his wife (1842-1845) began seeing a woman whom he idolized Clotilde de Vaux, she was the sole purpose for his creation in Religion of Humanity. She died soon after (a year) later after the affair and he poured his soul in to writing the Four-volume System of Positive Polity. -
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2023
By getting a bigger picture in allowing the understanding of the natural world. He divided Sociology in to two different fields social dynamics and social statics. That's what made a bigger impact in philosophy be gave credited it. He also created the " Law of Three Stages". -
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2023
Comet was a philosopher who was considered to be the father of Sociology and positivism. He was brought up during the crazy times in the European history including the Industrial Revolution. Creating a system of positive philosophy , which includes logic and mathematics adding in sensory experience so that was y it creates a better understanding in humans.