Comte, Auguste (1798–1857)

Usually labeled the “founder of sociology and positivism,” Auguste Comte was one of the most important 19th-century French philosophers. Born Isidore-Auguste-Marie-François-Xavier Comte on January 19, 1798, in Montpellier, he began life in the chaos of the last years of the French ...

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