URST 400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Auguste Comte, Henri Lefebvre
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Auguste comte: an intellectual biography, volume 1 (by mary pickering): "science of society as the science of politics, political science, scientific politics, positive politics and social physics" --> comte understood that his branch of science relied on multiple different sciences. Unlike prior science branches, which was independent in nature. Believed that the human mind would apply various types of knowledge to social phenomena --> this was a form of science. As science was becoming postivist, it was creating a positive philosophy. Believed that there should be a linking philosophy to link all the disciplines together (they should not be thought of separately) Positive philosophy: combining human intellectual knowledge together to create one intellectual system. Unites people in a single communion of ideas. Darwin among the machines: the notebooks of samuel butler - author of. Considered machines as a new kingdom (alike animal and natural kingdoms) --> talked about classifying them as species and sub-species, although difficult to achieve.
