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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)
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)
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