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100			_aAuguste comte _91115446
245			_aThe positive philosophy of Auguste comte
260			_aLondon _bCambridge University Press _c2009
300			_axxxvi, 480 p. _bIncludes bibliographical reference and index
520			_aThe Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte is a condensed English version of the French philosopher's controversial work, freely translated by Harriet Martineau and published in two volumes in 1853. Martineau's abridged and more easily digestible version of Comte's work was intended to be readily accessible to a wide general readership, particularly those she felt to be morally and intellectually adrift, and Comte's philosophy indeed attracted a significant following in Britain in the later nineteenth century. Comte's 'doctrine' promoted personal and public ethics and social cohesion based no longer on metaphysics but on strict scientific method, and anticipated twentieth-century logical positivism and secular humanism.
650			_aPositivism _91115447
700			_aMartineauj, Harriet _eTranslator _91115448
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