System of Positive Polity

work by Comte
Also known as: “Système de philosophie positive”, “Système de politique positive”

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  • Auguste Comte
    In Auguste Comte: Life

    …his other major work, the Système de politique positive, 4 vol. (1851–54; System of Positive Polity), in which he completed his formulation of sociology. The entire work emphasized morality and moral progress as the central preoccupation of human knowledge and effort and gave an account of the polity, or political…

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