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Isidore-Auguste-Marie-François-Xavier Comte full name born in Montpellier, France. He is consider the founder of Sociology and of positivism. Fletcher, Ronald, and Harry Elmer Barnes. “Auguste Comte.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 15 Jan. 2020, www.britannica.com/biography/Auguste-Comte.
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a six volume book series that Auguste Comte wrote about his Positive Philosophy. the first three volumes spoke about the physical science of mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology and the last three spoke of a upcoming science of social science.
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he taught analysis and mechanics at the 'Ecole Polytechnique,' but he lost this job in 1842 due to a clash with the administrators of the institute.
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published his book on mathematics titled “Elementary Treatise on Analytic Geometry.” that he wrote and published with John Stuart Mill. “Who Was Auguste Comte? Everything You Need to Know.” Facts, Childhood, Family Life, Achievements & Timeline, www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/auguste-comte-3319.php.
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work emphasized morality and moral progress as the main focus of human knowledge the effort and the record of the polity, or political organization. This was the formula that gave birth to sociology.
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Auguste created the law of three stages, human intellectual development had moved historically from a theological era in which everything natural was explained by a higher power (deities had the role). The metaphysical stage, was build up of the first stage where the higher power is replace with spirit that is guiding us. Positive state where laws govern us not outside beings. This where humans stop searching for the event, instead start discovering what causes the event.
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He died from cancer
