Esse foi um livro interessante ter lido logo após a "Pedagogia do oprimido", por Paulo Freire pois se constrastam de forma que Comte é academicista, mas convergem de maneira de ambos anseiam em substituir uma educação dogmático e retrógrada.

A brilliant reflection of the 19th century's Zeitgeist.

Who would've thought, a book about epistemology made into political rhetoric. It's not even good political rhetoric, either. Not very good.

"The general problem of education consists enabling an individual of usually but average ability to reach in a few years the same stage of development that has been attained during a long series of ages by the efforts of a large number of superior thinkers, who have throughout their lives concentrat

This little book comprises the first two chapters of his Course on Positive Philosophy. He lived from 1798 to 1857.

Comte believes that human inquiry goes through three stages.: A theological stage, a metaphysical stage and finally a positive stage. The theological stage consists in imaginative attem

Auguste Comte is niet de minste: hij is een der grondleggers van de sociologie (hij heeft dat woord zelf uitgevonden, evenals het begrip altruïsme) en grondlegger van het positivisme. In dit boekje vat Comte zijn leer samen voor de geïnteresseerde beginner. Helaas is Comte een verre van heldere schr

This is a neat introduction to "positivism," which anyone trying to understand modern intellectual history will need to confront. This little pamphlet was originally part of a much longer series of lectures written and delivered by Comte, but it stands on its own as a basic introduction to his premi