Auguste Comte
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Comte
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Positivist philosopher named as one of the refuters of the natural-rights theory of suffrage.
This doctrine is congenial to democrats who at times have treated the claim to manhood suffrage as a natural right.
but Auguste Comte was assuredly a severe critic or formidable assailant of the economical doctrine whereof Harriet Martineau had been the preacher.
Publication of Miss Martineau’s translation of Comte’s Philosophie Positive, 1853.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Philosopher whose theory of transformation from theological to metaphysical conceptions is invoked as an analogy.
Auguste Comte might have appealed to the change as illustrating the transformation of a theological into a metaphysical conception.