The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte, Volume 1Books on Demand, 1875 - 444 pages |
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... determine the spirit of each , ascertain their relations and mutual connection , and reduce their respective principles to the smallest number of general principles , in conformity with the fundamental rules of the Positive Method . At ...
... determine the spirit of each , ascertain their relations and mutual connection , and reduce their respective principles to the smallest number of general principles , in conformity with the fundamental rules of the Positive Method . At ...
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... determine it - in order to determine whether it is a law of nature that atoms should necessarily combine in fixed numbers , -it will be indispensable that the chemical point of view should be united with the physiological . The failure ...
... determine it - in order to determine whether it is a law of nature that atoms should necessarily combine in fixed numbers , -it will be indispensable that the chemical point of view should be united with the physiological . The failure ...
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... determine the spirit and influence of the Positive Philosophy , and to mark the goal of our labours , we have now to proceed to the exposition of the system ; that is , to the determination of the universal , or encyclopædic order ...
... determine the spirit and influence of the Positive Philosophy , and to mark the goal of our labours , we have now to proceed to the exposition of the system ; that is , to the determination of the universal , or encyclopædic order ...
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... determined by à priori considerations . The real affinities and natural connections presented by objects being allowed to deter- mine their order , the classification itself becomes the expression of the most general fact . And thus ...
... determined by à priori considerations . The real affinities and natural connections presented by objects being allowed to deter- mine their order , the classification itself becomes the expression of the most general fact . And thus ...
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... determine the arrange- ment of the system of human knowledge . Before proceeding to investigate this mutual dependence , we have only to ascertain the real bounds of the classification proposed in other words , to settle what we mean by ...
... determine the arrange- ment of the system of human knowledge . Before proceeding to investigate this mutual dependence , we have only to ascertain the real bounds of the classification proposed in other words , to settle what we mean by ...
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Page 2 - ... through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious; the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive. In other words, the human mind, by its nature, employs in its progress three methods of philosophizing, the character of which is essentially different, and even radically opposed: viz, the theological method, the metaphysical and the positive.
Page 10 - In order to observe, your intellect must pause from activity; yet it is this very activity that you want to observe. If you cannot effect the pause, you cannot observe : if you do effect it, there is nothing to observe.
Page 6 - This branch of science has not hitherto entered into the domain of positive philosophy. Theological and metaphysical methods, exploded in other departments, are as yet exclusively applied, both in the way of inquiry and discussion, in all treatment of social subjects, though the best minds are heartily weary of eternal disputes about divine right and the sovereignty of the people.
Page 4 - ... would never have done all that they are capable of. Our organization requires this. At such a period there could have been no reception of a positive philosophy, whose function is to discover the laws of phenomena, and whose leading characteristic it is to regard as interdicted to human reason those sublime mysteries which theology explains, even to their minutest details, with the most attractive facility. It is just so under a practical view of the nature of the researches with which men first...
Page 144 - The squares of the periods of revolution of any two planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
Page 3 - The progress of the individual mind is not only an illustration, but an indirect evidence of that of the general mind. The point of departure of the individual and of the race being the same, the phases of the mind of a man correspond to the epochs of the mind of the race. Now, each of us is aware, if he looks back upon his own history, that he was a theologian in his childhood, a metaphysician in his youth, and a natural philosopher in his manhood. All men who are up to their age can verify this...
Page 5 - Our business is,— seeing how vain is any research into what are called Causes, whether first or final,— to pursue an accurate discovery of these Laws, with a view to reducing them to the smallest possible number. By speculating upon causes, we could solve no difficulty about origin and purpose. Our real business is to analyse accurately the circumstances of phenomena, and to connect them by the natural relations of succession and resemblance.
Page 2 - ... as Gravitation, for instance. The importance of the working of this general law will be established hereafter. At present, it must suffice to point out some of the grounds of it. There is no science which, having attained the positive stage, does not bear marks of having passed through the others. Some time since it was (whatever it might be) composed, as we can now perceive, of metaphysical abstractions; and, further back in the course of time, it took its form from theological conceptions....
Page 22 - ... complicated in the case of the human race by the influence of generations on their successors. Thus it is clear that our social science must issue from that which relates to the life of the individual. On the other hand, there is no occasion to suppose, as some eminent physiologists have done, that Social Physics is only an appendage to physiology. The phenomena of the two are not identical, though they are homogeneous; and it is of high importance to hold the two sciences separate. As social...
Page 8 - ... actually owed that general superiority to the inferiority of their knowledge. We must consider whether the evil can be avoided without losing the good of the modern arrangement; for the evil is becoming urgent. We all acknowledge that the divisions established for the convenience of scientific pursuit are radically artificial; and yet there are very few who can embrace in idea the whole of any one science: each science moreover being itself only a part of a great whole. Almost every one is busy...