The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte

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Part VI. Social Physics:
1. Necessity and opportunities of this new science
2. Principal philosophical attempts to constitute a social science
3. Characteristics of the positive method in its application to social phenomena
4. Relation of sociology to the other departments of positive philosophy
5. Social statics, or theory of the spontaneous order of human society
6. Social dynamics, or theory of the natural progress of human society
7. Preparation of the historical question: First theological phase, fetichism – beginning of the theological and military system
8. Second phase, polytheism – development of the theological and military system.
9. Age of monotheism – modification of the theological and military system
10. Metaphysical state, and critical period of modern society
11. Rise of the elements of the positive state – preparation for social reorganisation
12. Review of the revolutionary crisis – ascertainment of the final tendency of modern society
13. Final estimate of the positive method
14. Estimate of the results of positive doctrine in its preparatory stage
15. Estimate of the final action of the positive philosophy.

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