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COMTE AND THE POSITIVIST RESPONSE

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by W. M. Simon
Professor of History at the University of Keele
Auguste Comte, with his domestic eccentricities and his do-it-yourself ' religion of humanity.' is a ready target for those who find philosophers tigures of fun. Yet his rositivist philosophy was a remarkably interesting response to the unprecedented problems set by the Europe which followed the French Revolution.
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