The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte is a condensed English version of the French philosopher's controversial work, freely translated by Harriet Martineau and published in two volumes in 1853.

Positivists since the 19th-century French philosopher Auguste Comte have considered material progress an inevitable feature of human history. The human condition always continues to improve in ...

Auguste Comte, the founder of modern sociology, coined the phrase “social physics” back in the 19th century. Comte and others in that era aspired to explain social reality by developing a set of ...