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This 4 page paper examines positivism. The paper begins by defining what is meant by positivism and then looks at the founding of the school of thought by Auguste Comte and its’ subsequent development, such as advancement of logical positivism. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
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facts, meaning observation and data through the senses. Consequently, all knowledge will, either directly or indirectly, rely on the physical sciences (Kolakowski, 1972). The founding of this school of
thought is accredited to a French sociologist; Auguste Comte. It was Comte who originated the term positivism. However, he built on the work of Saint-Simon; a social reformer and
a man whom Comte worked for as a secretary during his youth. The ideas were new for the time, they were also novel, as they aimed to describe how
the human mind had evolved through very separate a definable stages (Kolakowski, 1972). Comte identified three stages of development. The first is religious, the second metaphysical and the third
scientific (Kolakowski, 1972). These graduated from religious as the most primitive stage, to scientific as the most developed, with the later having the highest level of value, but
built on the former levels (Kolakowski, 1972). Comtes concepts were timely to the nineteenth century philosophical and academic environment. With a framework that was able to describe how the human
mind evolved it provided a useful link between the eighteenth century principle of inevitable progress and the doctrines that were to emerge later in the nineteenth century; those of evolutionary
ethics, where there was a duty to pursue the already existing processes and further them. Nevertheless, positivism was not as concerned with the ethical norms but with the stipulation of
the thought methods. It may also be argued that there was also a single factor held in common with Marxism, the furthering of that which was already inevitable, but the
links are very tenuous as a subsequent version of positivism suffered scathing criticism by Lenin in his Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (Kolakowski, 1972). Comtes positivism had a synergy
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