— One could both smile and sigh, to use old Thomas Fuller’s phrase, at the homage paid to the founder of the Religion of Humanity by two American disciples, as shown in Lettres d’Auguste Comte à Henry ...

The accusation gains controversial contours when it falls on mathematics, the discipline viewed by France’s Auguste Comte (1798-1857) – the creator of positivism – as the base of education. “The ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Auguste Comte (1798-1857) seems a prime example of the sort of influential-at-one-time thinker that ...

Originally organised by the English Positivist Society in the 1930s, the Auguste Comte Memorial Lectures are now hosted by LSE Philosophy, where they provide a public platform for some of the world’s ...