The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte is a condensed English version of the French philosopher's controversial ... humanistic and finally scientific. 5. Social statics, or theory of the spontaneous ...

The French philosopher Auguste Comte (1798-1857) is generally acknowledged as one of the founding fathers of sociology, and one of the most influential "grand theorists" of the nineteenth century.

Auguste Comte, the founder of modern sociology, coined the phrase “social physics” back in the 19th century. Comte and others in that era aspired to explain social reality by developing a set of ...