Auguste Comte: Sociologia

by Auguste Comte, Evaristo De Moraes Filho (foreword)

"(...) Com total consciência da crise do seu tempo, de uma revolução em pleno desenvolvimento, que não terminava nunca, apontava Comte na Física Social (Sociologia) como ciência positiva, a única que faltava, o meio de poderem os homens conhecer o passado e dele extrair a linha evolutiva que os levaria a um futuro certo e inequívoco. Era preciso sair do empirismo no campo social e político, construindo-se um sistema de doutrinas gerais, fundadas nos mesmos métodos das demais ciências, já admitidas como positivas, não confundindo os governos e os povos os seus desejos com a realidade. Com os objetivos práticos nasceu a Sociologia na obra de Augusto Comte: conhecer para agir; compreender para reorganizar. (...)"

207 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1978

About the author

French philosopher Isidore Auguste Comte, known as the founder of positivism, also established sociology as a systematic study.

Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte bettered the discipline and the doctrine. People sometimes regard him first of science in the modern sense of the term.

The utopian socialist Henri Saint-Simon strongly influenced Comte, who developed an attempt to remedy the malaise of the revolution and called for a new doctrine, based on the sciences. Comte influenced major 19th-century thought and the work of Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, and George Eliot. His now outdated concept of evolutionism set the tone for early theorists and anthropologists, such as [authore:Harriet Martineau] and Herbert Spencer; Émile Durkheim presented modern academics as practical and objective research.

Theories of Comte culminated in the "Religion of Humanity," which influenced the development of secular organizations in the 19th century. Comte likewise coined the word altruism.

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