Auguste Comte

Born

January 19, 1798

Died

September 5, 1857 (aged 59)

Known as

repetitor, philosopher, sociologist, mathematician, writer

Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte was a French philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term. Comte's ideas were fundamental to the development of sociology, as he coined the term and treated the discipline as the crowning achievement of the sciences.

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