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Auguste Comte Flashcards

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Auguste Comte

When was he Born?

Day, Month, Year

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Jan 19th, 1798

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Who developed the view of positive philosophy

Also known as posivitism

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Auguste Comte

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Auguste Comte

He coined the term Sociology in the year? which he previously called ?

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1839, Social Physics

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Auguste Comte

According to him sociology was primarily concerned with?

two things

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Social Statics and Social dynamics

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Auguste Comte

Became the secetary to Henri saint simon in the year?

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1817

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Auguste Comte

He had a falling out with Saint simon in the year? and what was the reason behind it?

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1824, omittion of comte’s name from a publication

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Auguste Comte

what was the name of his wife and what was the duration of their marriage

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Caroline Massin (1825 - 1842)

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Auguste Comte

What is regared as the conerstone of his apporach?

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The evolutionary theory

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Auguste Comte

In what year did comte plan to present a series of public lectures and how may was it supposed to be in total?

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1826, 72

stopped at 3

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Auguste Comte

What year did he try to commit sucide?

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1827

by throwing himself into selme river

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August Comte

What his best known work and when was it first published

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Cours de philosphie positive
(a course on positive philosophy), 1830

republished in 1842

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Auguste Comte

Systeme de politique positive was first published in the year? and when did the other 3 volumes come out?

Making it a total of 4 volumes

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1851, 1852,1853,1854

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Auguste Comte

In what year did He embark on _Cerebral Hygine”

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1838

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Auguste Comte

When did he die?

day, month, year

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Sep 5th, 1857

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Auguste Comte

He started teaching Course of positive philosophy in what year and how volume did it have.

state the years of publication of all volumes

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Started teaching in in 1829
6 Volumes (1830, 1835, 1838, 1839, 1841, 1842)

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Auguste Comte

What is the title of his final work and when was it published

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la synthese subjective (The subjective synthesis), published in 1854

17
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Auguste Comte

What were the following works published?
* Elementary Treatise on Analytic Geometry
* The Discourse of positive spirit
* The General view of positivisim

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1843, 1844, 1844

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Auguste Comte

According to him evolution of the human mind is parraled to the ?

A

evolution of the individual mind

19
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Auguste Comte

Another name for the theological stage of Auguste Comte is ?

in the Law of Three stages

A

fictitious stage

20
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Auguste Comete

The theological stage can be subdivided into 3 stategs namely?

in the law of 3 stages

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  • Fetistim
  • polytheism
  • Monotheism
21
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Auguste Comte

He identified 3 stages of social organisation in relation to the law of 3 stages. name and identify the relationship

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  • theological -> Military
  • Metaphysical -> political system
  • positive -> industrial
22
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Auguste Comte

Hes’ second best known theory is the?

A

Hierachy of Science

23
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Auguste Comte

Outline the sciences according to auguste comte hierachy of sciences

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  1. Mathmatics
  2. Astronomy
  3. Physics
  4. Chemistry
  5. Biology
  6. Sociology

from top to bottom Growing in complexity

reducing in generality and complexity of instruments

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Auguste Comte

According to him what is the simplest science and first to reach the positive stage and what is the most complex?

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Mathimatics, sociology

25
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Auguste Comte

He outlined 4 methods to be used by sociology to study their subject matter. they are?

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  1. Observation
  2. Experimentation
  3. Comparison
  4. Historical Analysis
26
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Auguste Comte

He saw Sociology as an extention of ?

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Biology

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Auguste Comte

the word Sociology is a compound of which two languages?

A

Latin and Greek

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Auguste Comte

According to him human history is marked by ____ and ____

A

Organic periods (equlibrum)
Critical periods (disequlibrum)

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Auguste Comte

When did comte meet his second love ?, what was her name and when did she die

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Oct 1844, Clotilde de Vaux, April 6 1846

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Auguste Comte

Which year is considered as the year without equal in his life and why?

A

1845, confessed love to Clotilde de Vaux,

31
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Auguste Comte

Which year did He proclain Humanism

A

1847

32
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Auguste Comte

When was the founding of the the positivist society

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1848

33
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Auguste Comte

What year did he conceive the law of three stages

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1822

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