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By Auguste Comte
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A systematic exposition of positivism sets out a comprehensive program that reorganizes knowledge and civic life around empirically grounded sciences, a hierarchical classification of disciplines, and a moral creed centered on duty and the worship of Humanity. It traces intellectual development, offers a secular scheme of social and political reform, and prescribes changes in education, industry, the family, and public ritual. The text also considers the roles of art, poetry, women and the working classes within a unified social ethic, combining philosophical principles with concrete institutional and ceremonial proposals.

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Title: A General View of Positivism

Author: Auguste Comte

Author of introduction, etc.: Frederic Harrison

Translator: John Henry Bridges

Release date: December 24, 2016 [eBook #53799]
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Language: English

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The New Universal Library

A GENERAL VIEW OF
POSITIVISM

A GENERAL VIEW
OF POSITIVISM

Translated from the French of
AUGUSTE COMTE

By J. H. BRIDGES, M.B.
Late Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford

A New Edition, with an Introduction (1908), by
FREDERIC HARRISON

And the Additional Notes in the last French
Edition (Paris, 1907)

LONDON
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS LIMITED
New York: E. P. DUTTON & CO.

Published by the kind consent of Mrs. Bridges and the Positivist Committee, to whom the copyright of this translation belongs.

Republic of the West
Order and Progress

A GENERAL VIEW OF
POSITIVISM

Or,
SUMMARY EXPOSITION OF THE
SYSTEM OF THOUGHT
AND LIFE

Adapted to the Great Western Republic, formed of the Five Advanced Nations, the French, Italian, Spanish, British and German, which, since the time of Charlemagne, have always constituted a Political Whole

Réorganiser, sans dieu ni roi, par le culte systématique de l’Humanité.

Nul n’a droit qu’à faire son devoir.

L’esprit doit toujours être le ministre du coeur, et jamais son esclave.

Reorganisation, irrespectively of God or king, by the worship of Humanity, systematically adopted.

Man’s only right is to do his duty.

The Intellect should always be the servant of the Heart, and should never be its slave.

By
AUGUSTE COMTE
Author of ‘System of Positive Philosophy’
Paris, 1848