Auguste Comte

Freitag, 19. Januar 1798

Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte (French: [oˈɡyst kɔ̃t]; 19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857) was a French philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term. Comte's ideas were also fundamental to the development of sociology; indeed, he invented the term and treated that discipline as the crowning achievement of the sciences.