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PositivismPositivism
Auguste Comte (1798 – 1857)
Positivism – philosophy of human intellectual development that climaxed in science.
Comte argued that human thought had developed in three stages:
1. Theological – everything explained in terms of divine spirits
2. Metaphysical – everything is guided by abstract principles.
3. Positive/Scientific – everything should be explained through scientific analysis
Father of Sociology – use observable facts to develop scientific laws of social progress.