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political science
political theory
modern political thought
key people in modern political thought
Preferred term
Auguste Comte
Definition
- Auguste Comte is known as the founder of sociology and the father of the paradigm of positivism. He was born Isidore Marie Auguste Francois Xavier Comte on January 17,1798, at Montpellier, in southwestern France, at the culmination of the French Enlightenment. [Source: Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture; Comte, Auguste (1798–1857)]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Auguste_Comte
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