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Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857), better known as Auguste Comte was a French philosopher. He was a founder of sociology and positivism.
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The Course on Positive Philosophy was Comte's first major work and had six volumes. He was 32 when the first volume was released. This book mainly explains the law of three stages.
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Comte wrote another book called The System of Positive Polity in which he talks about "complete positivism", which is ‘continuous dominance of the heart’. Complete Positivism transforms philosophy into religion.
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In Comte's works he defines religion as "the state of complete harmony peculiar to human life […] when all the parts of Life are ordered in their natural relations to each other". In the positivist religion, worship, doctrine and moral rule all have the same object, namely Humanity, which must be loved, known, and served. It was said that Comte's religion was Catholicism without Christ.
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Bourdeau, M. (2022, January 27). Auguste Comte. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/comte/#RelHum