Auguste Comte | |
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![]() Auguste Comte by Tony Touillon | |
Born | Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte 19 January 1798 |
Died | 5 September 1857 Paris, France | (aged 59)
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 |
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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]
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