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Social positivism only accepts duties, for all and towards all. Its constant social viewpoint cannot include any notion of rights, for such notion always rests on individuality.
Le Catéchisme positiviste (1852)
Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991)
There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.
A General View of Positivism (1848)
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
System of positive polity (1852)
The object of all true Philosophy is to frame a system which shall comprehend human life under every aspect, social as well as individual. It embraces, therefore, the three kinds of phenomena of which our life consists, Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions.
A General View of Positivism (1848)
The formation of the differential equations proper to the phenomena is, independent of their integration, a very important acquisition, on account of the approximations which mathematical analysis allows between questions, otherwise heterogeneous.
Reorganisation, irrespectively of God or king, by the worship of Humanity, systematically adopted. Man’s only right is to do his duty. The Intellect should always be the servant of the Heart, and should never be its slave.
A General View of Positivism (1848)
Thus the social position of women is in this respect very similar to that of philosophers and of the working classes. And we now see why these three elements should be united. It is their combined action which constitutes the moral or modifying force of society.
A General View of Positivism (1848)
The dead govern the living.
Le Catéchisme positiviste (1852)
Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.
System of positive polity (1852)
[F]inding direct measurement so often impossible, we are compelled to devise means of doing it indirectly. Hence arose Mathematics.
The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte (1853)
It was under Catholic Feudalism that they were first united; a union for which their incorporation into the Roman empire had prepared them, and which was finally organized by the incomparable genius of Charlemagne.
A General View of Positivism (1848)
After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.
The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte (1853)
The principal means of realizing it will be the formation of an alliance between philosophers and the working classes, for which both are alike prepared by the negative and positive progress of the last five centuries. The direct object of their combined action will be to set in motion the force of Public Opinion.
A General View of Positivism (1848)