فلسفة أوجيست كونت

by Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, ليفى بريل, محمود قاسم (Translator)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER I THE PHILOSOPHICAL PRODLEM ACCORDING to Comte, philosophy is destined to serve as a basis for morality, for politics and for religion. It is not an end in itself but a means to reach an end not otherwise attainable. Had Comte thought it possible to reorganise society without first reorganising morals, and to reorganise morals without first reorganising beliefs, he would not perhaps have written the six volumes of the Cours de Philosophie positive which occupied him from 1830 to 1842. He would have gone straight to what was of supreme interest. He early became convinced that the shortest way would not be the best. In his view, all endeavour at religious, moral, or political reorganisation, must be vain so long as mental reorganisation has not taken place. It is therefore with a new philosophy that he must begin. Indispensable to the social end which Comte has in view, philosophy becomes, at least provisionally, an end in itself. Comte is going to endeavour to reorganise beliefs, that is to say, to substitute a demonstrated faith to the revealed faith whose force is now spent. This demonstrated faith will have nothing in common with the natural religion of the XVIII. century, which was at bottom but a weak and degenerate form of belief in the supernatural. Under the metaphysical garb of Deism we still recognise theological thought. On the contrary the demonstrated faith will have its origin and its justification in positive science.The two words faith and demonstration appear to clash with each other. But the contradiction lies merely on the surface. For we are still concerned with faith since the great majority of men will always have to take on faith the conclusions of positive philosophy. The number of men with sufficient leisure and enou...

361 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1900

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