The Catechism of Positive Religion - Softcover

Comte, Auguste

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0766190404 ISBN 13: 9780766190405

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Co, 2004

Synopsis

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Book Description

This English edition of The Catechism of Positive Religion was published in 1891. The French philosopher Comte here outlines his progressive ideal of positivist 'sociocracy' as a basis for intellectual and moral transactions among humans. This book remains of interest today as an early precursor of secular humanist ethics.

Synopsis

1891. Comte, a French philosopher, was the founder of Positivism. Positivism is a philosophical system of thought maintaining that the goal of knowledge is simply to describe the phenomena experienced, not to question whether it exists or not. Comte sought to apply the methods of observation and experimentation, as was beginning to be used in the hard sciences, to a field that we now know as sociology. This is one of his later works. Contents: Explanation of the Worship; Explanation of the Doctrine; Explanation of the Regime, or System of Life; and General History of Religion.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0766190404
• ISBN 13: 9780766190405
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320