Cours de philosophie positive¶
Comte, A. (. (1853). Cours de philosophie positive. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte.
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- This template persisted into secular determinisms: Marx secularized Hegelian necessity by substituting material production for Geist; Auguste Comte's law of three stages (Cours de philosophie positive, 1830–1842) proposed that human knowledge and society advance through theological, metaphysical, and positivist stages in strict sequence;
This sourceFormulates the "law of three stages" — theological, metaphysical, positive — as a necessary developmental sequence governing both individual cognition and historical society.
- This template persisted into secular determinisms: Marx secularized Hegelian necessity by substituting material production for Geist; Auguste Comte's law of three stages (Cours de philosophie positive, 1830–1842) proposed that human knowledge and society advance through theological, metaphysical, and positivist stages in strict sequence;
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