A General View of Positivism

A General View of Positivism (Discours sur l'ensemble du positivisme) is a 1848 book by the French philosopher Auguste Comte, first published in English in 1865. A founding text in the development of positivism and the discipline of sociology, the work provides a revised and full account of the theory Comte presented earlier in his multi-part The Course in Positive Philosophy (1830–1842). Comte outlines the epistemological view of positivism, provides an account of the manner by which sociology should be performed, and describes his law of three stages.

A General View of Positivism

Author	Auguste Comte
Original title	Discours sur l'ensemble du positivisme
Language	French
Subject	Positivism
Publication date	1848
Published in English	1865
Dewey Decimal	146
LC Class	B2228.E5

See also

• Society portal

• Religion of humanity
• Sociological positivism

References

• Comte, A.; Bridges, J.H. (tr.), A General View of Positivism; Trubner and Co., 1865 (reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009; ISBN 978-1-108-00064-2)

External links

• A General View of Positivism at Standard Ebooks
• A General View of Positivism public domain audiobook at LibriVox