Tags: Philosopher.

Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857) better known as Auguste Comte (French: [oɡyst kɔ̃t]) was a French philosopher. He was a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism.

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birth date
1798-01-19
birth place
Montpellier
death date
1857-09-05
individualised GND number
118521748
influenced
Friedrich Nietzsche, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Pierre Laffitte, Émile Durkheim, Herbert Spencer, Émile Littré, Charles Maurras, Harriet Martineau
influenced by
Claude Henri de Rouvroy comte de Saint-Simon
notableIdea
Altruism, Positivism, Law of three stages

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