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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Cambridge Univ Pr
Publication date July 20, 2009
Pages 480
Binding Paperback
Edition Reissue
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781108001199
ISBN-10 110800119X
Dimensions 1.50 by 5.25 by 8.25 in.
Weight 1.55 lbs.
Original list price $49.99
Other format details university press
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The 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. The first volume of this translation contains Parts 1 to 5 and sets out the nature and importance of positivism, leading on to an overview of the 'positive sciences': mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry and biology.

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Paperback
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About: French philosopher and social scientist AUGUSTE COMTE (1798-1857) developed the notion of sociology as a field that could be studied, invented the term altruism, and in this groundbreaking work, created a system of principles and ideas-a rational "religion"-that has since come to influence humanism across the Western world.
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Reissue edition from Cambridge Univ Pr (July 20, 2009)
9781108001199 | details & prices | 480 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 1.50 in. | 1.55 lbs | List price $49.99
About: The 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.
1 edition from Cambridge Univ Pr (July 20, 2009)
9781108001205 | details & prices | 561 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 1.50 in. | 1.70 lbs | List price $59.99
About: The 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.
from Bibliobazaar (October 30, 2008)
9780559362781 | details & prices | 397 pages | 4.75 × 7.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.98 lbs | List price $21.99
About: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
from Kessinger Pub Co (May 1, 2003)
9780766154735 | details & prices | 398 pages | 8.25 × 10.75 × 1.00 in. | 2.05 lbs | List price $34.95

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