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Auguste Comte

1798 - 1857

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Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (; French: [oɡyst kɔ̃t] ; 19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857) was a French philosopher, mathematician 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, with him inventing the very term and treating the discipline as the crowning achievement of the sciences. Influenced by Henri de Saint-Simon, Comte's work attempted to remedy the social disorder caused by the French Revolution, which he believed indicated an imminent transition to a new form of society. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Auguste Comte is the 33rd most popular philosopher (down from 27th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from France (down from 25th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Philosopher.

Auguste Comte is most famous for his positivist philosophy, which states that the only true knowledge is scientific knowledge.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Auguste Comte ranks 27 out of 1,267. After him are Thomas Hobbes, Al-Ghazali, Erasmus, Diogenes, Parmenides, Baruch Spinoza, Anaximander, Al-Farabi, Martin Heidegger, Maria Montessori, Plutarch, and Søren Kierkegaard.

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Among people born in 1798, Auguste Comte ranks 1. After him are Eugène Delacroix, Adam Mickiewicz, Pedro I of Brazil, Jules Michelet, Alexandra Feodorovna, Charles Albert of Sardinia, Giacomo Leopardi, Josiah Warren, Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry, František Palacký, and Mpande kaSenzangakhona. Among people deceased in 1857, Auguste Comte ranks 1. After him are Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Archduchess Sophie of Austria, Carl Czerny, Mikhail Glinka, Dominic Savio, Eugène François Vidocq, Alfred de Musset, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Eugène Sue, Hinrich Lichtenstein, and Louis-Eugène Cavaignac.

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In France

Among people born in France, Auguste Comte ranks 31 out of 6,770. Before him are Caracalla (188), Édith Piaf (1915), Antoine Lavoisier (1743), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (1122), and Alain Delon (1935). After him are Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Paul Cézanne (1839), Coco Chanel (1883), John Calvin (1509), Louis XIII of France (1601), and Paul Gauguin (1848).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Auguste Comte ranks 3. Before him are René Descartes (1596), and Montesquieu (1689). After him are Michel de Montaigne (1533), Michel Foucault (1926), Henri Bergson (1859), Peter Abelard (1079), Roland Barthes (1915), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), Jean Bodin (1530), Gilles Deleuze (1925), and Henri de Saint-Simon (1760).

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