• Auguste Comte and Positivism by John Stuart Mill

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Auguste Comte and Positivism by John Stuart Mill

By: Lina
  • Summary

  • Part 1 lays out the framework for Positivism as originated in France by Auguste Comte in his Cours de Philosophie Positive. Mill examines the tenets of Comte's movement and alerts us to defects. Part 2 concerns all Comte's writings except the Cours de Philosophie Positive. During Comte's later years he gave up reading newspapers and periodicals to keep his mind pure for higher study. He also became enamored of a certain woman who changed his view of life. Comte turned his philosophy into a religion, with morality the supreme guide. Mill finds that Comte learned to despise science and the intellect, instead substituting his frantic need for the regulation of change. (Summary by Bill Boerst)
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Episodes
  • 12 - Part 2E
    Sep 30 2024
    29 mins
  • 11 - Part 2D
    Sep 30 2024
    20 mins
  • 10 - Part 2C
    Sep 30 2024
    29 mins

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