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Auguste Comte

19 January 1798-5 September 1857

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The Blues is not able to be fully understood by white folks, for they hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there.

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Knowledge passes successively through three different historical theoretical conditions: The theological (or fictitious): The metaphysical (or abstract)... and the scientific (or positive).

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Life is only real when it is the collective life of the race... individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

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Positivism is a scientific approach to philosophy in which all knowledge is founded upon facts.

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Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.

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Positivism is that whereby love is the principle, the order is the foundation, and progress is the goal.