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'''Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte''' was born in Montpellier, [[France]] on January 19th, 1798, and died in [[Paris]] on September 5th, 1857.  Comte is best known as the father of [[positivism]], and was the first to utilize the [[scientific method]] in exploration of the social world. It was Comte who coined the term ''[[sociology]]''.

'''Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte''' (January 19th, 1798 - September 5th, 1857) is regarded as a philosopher, is best known as the father of [[positivism]], and was the first to utilize the [[scientific method]] in exploration of the social world. It was Comte who coined the term ''[[sociology]]''.

[[Friedrich Hayek]] was highly critical of Comte's totalitarian ideas.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=EyNHBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA70 The Road to Serfdom]</ref>

[[Friedrich Hayek]] was highly critical of Comte's totalitarian ideas.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=EyNHBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA70 The Road to Serfdom]</ref>

==Early Life==

==Early Life==

Auguste Comte was born at Montpellier on the 19th of January, 1798, and entered college at the age of nine years. Before Auguste Comte attaining his fourteenth year he had already felt the need of fundamental reconstruction in politics and philosophy. This maturity is all the more remarkable that philosophical minds mature slowly. In 1814 he entered the Polytechnic School. When Louis XVIII. suppressed it, Comte, not having graduated, found himself without a career. At the age of twenty he came in contact with Saint-Simon, whose devoted disciple he became. The attraction mutually felt by them was due to their common conviction of the need of a complete social reform, based on a widespread mental renovation.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=spoCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3935 The Warner Library], Charles Dudley Warner</ref>

Auguste Comte was born at Montpellier [[France]] on the 19th of January, 1798, and entered college at the age of nine years. Before Auguste Comte attaining his fourteenth year he had already felt the need of fundamental reconstruction in politics and philosophy. This maturity is all the more remarkable that philosophical minds mature slowly. In 1814 he entered the Polytechnic School. When Louis XVIII. suppressed it, Comte, not having graduated, found himself without a career. At the age of twenty he came in contact with Saint-Simon, whose devoted disciple he became. The attraction mutually felt by them was due to their common conviction of the need of a complete social reform, based on a widespread mental renovation.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=spoCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3935 The Warner Library], Charles Dudley Warner</ref>

==Beliefs==

==Beliefs==