AUGUSTE COMTE

AUGUSTE COMTE

• Born in 1798 in Paris, France

AUGUSTE COMTE

• He attended the University of Montpellier

INFLUENCED BY

• Henri de Saint-Simon, a social theorist

HE FURTHERED

• The study of society and the development of sociology

FATHER OF SOCIOLOGY

• His theory was the theory of positivism

In 1826, he began presenting a series of lectures. About one-third of the way through the lecture series, he suffered a nervous breakdown.

Despite periodic hospitalization over the next 15 years, he produced his major work, the six-volume Course of Positive Philosophy.

In his work, Comte argued that, like the physical world, society operated under its own set of laws.

IN 1846

• Comte wrote the System of Postitive Polity

IN 1857

• Comte died in Paris of stomach cancer