The Contributions by Augusto Comte In the fields of sociology and philosophy have been very varied and of great importance.
Auguste Comte was born in France in 1978. From his student years he began to worry about the problem of social organization. Thanks to this, it generated important contributions to the sociology .
Augusto Comte, founder of sociology
It is considered that, for his time, Comte developed the most organized model of social planning that existed. This he did in spite of having some openly anarchist ideas and a bohemian life and marked by poverty.
Among the most important contributions of Augusto Comte is the creation of the positivism As philosophy and the formalization of sociology.
Comte's contributions to social organization and philosophy Have been recognized by the most important authors and many of their ideas are still valid.
Main contributions from Comte
Sociology concept
The most recognized contribution of Comte and the one that is most closely linked to his name is the use, for the first time of the term"Sociology"in 1824.
Thanks to his analytical ability and his great synthesizer qualities, Comte was able to gather all the studies of his time about society and social phenomena.
These studies had already reached a certain maturity and it was Comte who managed to associate them all under the same term.
Ideas of Comte for the social organization
Comte's contributions to sociology were more than just compiling the studies of his time and sheltering them under one name.
His ideas of"social engineering"have been very important and widely discussed in the sociological field.
Comte conceived social facts as facts susceptible of scientific study and proposed a society organized under principles based on science and rationality.
This perspective allowed the subsequent development of many sociological and philosophical theories.
Foundation of positivism
The most important work of Comte was a series of essays published in 6 volumes and that had by name: Positive Philosophy.
In them, Auguste Comte forms the basis of a new philosophy. To this new stream of thought Comte baptized with the same name of its work and later was given the name of"positivismo".
Development of positivism and its object
Comte's contribution to positivism was not only to coin the name and describe it, but to seek its application for the betterment of societies.
Thanks to the contributions of Comte in the field the objects of positivism could be defined:
- Provide individual mindsets with a system of beliefs that unify the collective spirit.
- Establish coordinated rules on common beliefs belief system.
- To determine a political organization, accepted by all men and that responds to their intellectual aspirations and moral tendencies.
The ideas of Comte have allowed further developments of positivism, a philosophy still in force.
Other Philosophical Contributions
The philosophical contributions of Comte did not occur only in the subjects of positivism. The creation of his positive philosophy required Comte to address other related philosophical issues, making an important contribution to the historical development of them.
Among the philosophical themes in which Comte's ideas have been widely discussed are the concepts of"ideology"and"utopia", and their connection with the theory of separation from the spiritual and the temporal.
Even the subject of the arts was widely discussed by Comte within his philosophical theories.
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