Auguste Comte

Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte by Tony Touillon
Born	Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte (1798-01-19)19 January 1798 Montpellier, France
Died	5 September 1857(1857-09-05) (aged 59) Paris, France
Nationality	French
Alma mater	University of Montpellier École Polytechnique
Spouse	Caroline Massin (m. 1825–1842)
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
Notable ideas	Sociological positivism, law of three stages, encyclopedic law, altruism
Influences Bacon, Bichat, Condorcet, Descartes, Saint-Simon,[1] Denis Diderot[2]
Influenced Émile Littré, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, John Stuart Mill, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Spencer, Émile Durkheim, Charles Maurras,[3] Harriet Martineau, Pierre Laffitte, Eugen Dühring, George Henry Lewes, Edward Spencer Beesly, Frederic Harrison

Auguste Comte (full name: Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte; January 17, 1798 – September 5, 1857) was a French thinker. He was one of the founders of sociology. He created the word from the Latin: socius, "companion"; and the suffix -ology, "the study of", from Greek λόγος, lógos, "knowledge" ^[4]) He also started a way of thinking about and understanding human knowledge called positivism.^[5]

1. ↑ Pickering (2006), p. 192ff.
2. ↑ Pickering (2009b), pp. 216 and 304.
3. ↑ Sutton, Michael (1982). Nationalism, Positivism, and Catholicism. The Politics of Charles Maurras and French Catholics 1890–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-22868-8. esp. Chapters 1 and 2
4. ↑ Calhoun, Craig; Press, Oxford University (2002). Dictionary of the Social Sciences. Oxford University Press on Demand. ISBN 0-19-512371-9.
5. ↑ Le Système d'Auguste Comte. De la science à la religion par la philosophie, Annie Petit, Paris, Vrin, 2016