The positive philosophy of Auguste Comte
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, [U.K.] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2009.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39729060*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- v. 1. Introduction. Account of the aim of this work : view of the nature and importance of the positive philosophy ; View of the hierarchy of the positive sciences
- Mathematics. Mathematics, abstract and concrete ; General view of mathematical analysis ; General view of geometry ; Rational mechanics
- Astronomy. General view ; Methods of the study of astronomy ; Geometric phenomena of the heavenly bodies ; Celestial statics ; Celestial dynamics ; Sidereal astronomy and cosmogony
- Physics. General view ; Barology ; Thermology ; Acoustics ; Optics ; Electrology
- Chemistry. Inorganic chemistry ; Doctrine of definite proportions ; The electro-chemical theory '; Organic chemistry
- Biology. General view of biology ; Anatomical philosophy ; Biotaxic philosophy ; organic or vegetative life ; Intellectual and moral or cerebral functions.
- v. 2. Social physics. Necessity and opportuneness of this new science ; Principal philosophical attempts to constitute a social science ; Characteristics of the positive method in its applications to social phenomena ; Relation of sociology to the other departments of positive philosophy ; Social statics, or theory of the spontaneous order of human society ; Social dynamics, or the theory of the natural progress of human society ; Preparation of the historical question. First theological phase : fetichism. Beginning of the theological and military system ; Second phase : polytheism. Development of the theological and military system ; Age of monotheism. Modification of the theological and military system ; Metaphysical state, and critical period of modern society ; Rise of the elements of the positive state. Preparation for social reorganization ; Review of the revolutionary crisis. Ascertainment of the final tendency of modern society ; Final estimate of positive method ; Estimate of the results of positive doctrine in its preparatory stage ; Estimate of the final action of the positive philosophy.
