System Of Positive Polity: General View Of Positivism And Introductory Principles - Softcover

Auguste Comte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371842549 ISBN 13: 9780371842546

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

System Of Positive Polity: General View Of Positivism And Introductory Principles by Auguste Comte. This opening and concluding portion of Volume 1 presents a comprehensive program for reforming science and society through Positivism. It merges theoretical syntheses of Cosmology, Biology, and Sociology with moral and social commentary, and includes Appendices and didactic fiction to illustrate and propagate the Positivist project. Central ideas include: the brain as the organ of the soul and altruism as the organizing principle of social life, underpinned by three social instincts and five intellectual faculties; a model for systematizing biology so that subjective, hypothesis-driven inquiry can generalize to sociology as the final aim; and a normative arc in which Cosmology, Biology, and Sociology form an orderly progression toward an encyclopedic, socially engaged science governed by the aim to live for others. Methodological ethics stress hypotheses as instruments of thought and subordinate religious or metaphysical systems to a universal, humanity-centered worldview. The work advocates social reform and education guided by Life and Society, culminating in the Religion of Humanity that replaces older theologies as the basis for morality and social organization. It interweaves philosophical exposition with Appendices, fictional episodes (notably the Lucie novella), poetry, and letters to model social utility and moral aims of positivism, including a utopian vision of a reorganized Europe and world.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371842549
• ISBN 13: 9780371842546
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 746