Maison d'Auguste Comte — Attraction in Paris

Auguste Comte (1798–1857) first described the epistemological perspective of positivism in The Course in Positive Philosophy, a series of texts published between 1830 and 1842. These texts were followed by the 1844 work, A General View of Positivism (published in French 1848, English in 1865). The first three volumes of the Course dealt chiefly with the physical sciences already in existence (mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology), whereas the latter two emphasized the inevitable coming of social science. Observing the circular dependence of theory and observation in science, and classifying the sciences in this way, Comte may be regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term.[28] For him, the physical sciences had necessarily to arrive first, before humanity could adequately channel its efforts into the most challenging and complex "Queen science" of human society itself. His View of Positivism therefore set out to define the empirical goals of...

Je tiens à remercier chaleureusement le Musée - Maison d’Auguste Comte pour cette belle visite riche en découvertes. Un grand merci également à Monsieur Labreure, dont les explications passionnantes sur le positivisme et la vision d’Auguste Comte ont enrichi mon expérience. La clarté de ses propos permettent de mieux comprendre l’impact de cette pensée sur la science et la société. Je recommande vivement cette visite à toute personne curieuse de découvrir l’univers intellectuel d’un penseur du XIXe siècle dans un lieu...

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