Auguste Comte's six-volume work, The Positive Philosophy, outlines his philosophy of positivism and the law of three stages of societal development. It is considered a foundational text in the development of sociology and the philosophy of science.
Sources for Auguste Comte — The Positive Philosophy
Auguste Comte — The Positive Philosophy in Philosophy of Science
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- Francis Bacon — Novum Organum (1620)
- René Descartes — Discourse on Method (1637)
- David Hume — An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
- Bertrand Russell — The Problems of Philosophy (1912)
- William Whewell — The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840)
- John Stuart Mill — A System of Logic (1843)
- Henri Poincaré — Science and Hypothesis (1902)
- Heinrich Hertz — The Principles of Mechanics (1899)