Frases de Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
Fecha de nacimiento: 19. Enero 1798
Fecha de muerte: 5. Septiembre 1857
Auguste Comte, , es considerado el creador del positivismo y de la sociología.
Junto con Augustin Thierry, fue secretario del conde Henri de Saint-Simon durante siete años y ambos se separaron de él, debido a las muchas discrepancias que surgieron. Después de esta ruptura, Comte inició una etapa que calificó de "higiene cerebral" para alejarse de la influencia de las ideas de Saint-Simon.
Creó la palabra altruismo , en función de lo cual vivió: dio clases gratis de astronomía, escribió una enciclopedia de varios tomos él solo, todo para mejorar un mundo avaro en el que él sólo se empobreció. Su filosofía tuvo influencia tal que se fundaron países como Brasil en función de su filosofía, país en cuya bandera se lee Orden y Progreso, parte de la tríada filosófica de Comte . La influencia de su filosofía está tan entretejida en la vida de los países de los hombres ilustrados que ya no la distinguimos: la forma de ver a la ciencia como una fuente de progreso, la forma en la que organizamos las universidades, etc.
Frases Auguste Comte
„There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.“
Fuente: A General View of Positivism (1848, 1856), p. 104
„Social positivism only accepts duties, for all and towards all. Its constant social viewpoint cannot include any notion of rights, for such notion always rests on individuality.“
Le Catéchisme positiviste (1852)
Contexto: Social positivism only accepts duties, for all and towards all. Its constant social viewpoint cannot include any notion of rights, for such notion always rests on individuality. We are born under a load of obligations of every kind, to our predecessors, to our successors, to our contemporaries. These obligations then increase or accumulate, for it is some time before we can return any service. … Any human right is therefore as absurd as immoral. Since there are no divine rights anymore, this concept must therefore disappear completely as related only to the preliminary regime and totally inconsistent with the final state where there are only duties based on functions.
„The principal means of realizing it will be the formation of an alliance between philosophers and the working classes, for which both are alike prepared by the negative and positive progress of the last five centuries. The direct object of their combined action will be to set in motion the force of Public Opinion.“
Fuente: A General View of Positivism (1848, 1856), p. 153
„Thus the social position of women is in this respect very similar to that of philosophers and of the working classes. And we now see why these three elements should be united. It is their combined action which constitutes the moral or modifying force of society.“
Fuente: A General View of Positivism (1848, 1856), p. 235
„Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.“
Volume II, p. 213
System of positive polity (1852)
