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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A GENERAL VIEW OF POSITIVISM
- CHAPTER I INTELLECTUAL CHARACTER OF POSITIVISM
- CHAPTER II THE SOCIAL ASPECT OF POSITIVISM
- CHAPTER III THE ACTION OF POSITIVISM UPON THE WORKING CLASSES
- CHAPTER IV THE INFLUENCE OF POSITIVISM UPON WOMEN
- CHAPTER V THE RELATION OF POSITIVISM TO ART
- CHAPTER VI CONCLUSION: THE RELIGION OF HUMANITY
A GENERAL VIEW OF POSITIVISM
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A GENERAL VIEW OF POSITIVISM
- CHAPTER I INTELLECTUAL CHARACTER OF POSITIVISM
- CHAPTER II THE SOCIAL ASPECT OF POSITIVISM
- CHAPTER III THE ACTION OF POSITIVISM UPON THE WORKING CLASSES
- CHAPTER IV THE INFLUENCE OF POSITIVISM UPON WOMEN
- CHAPTER V THE RELATION OF POSITIVISM TO ART
- CHAPTER VI CONCLUSION: THE RELIGION OF HUMANITY
Summary
“We tire of thinking and even of acting; we never tire of loving.”
In the following series of systematic essays upon Positivism, the essential principles of the doctrine are first considered; I then point out the agencies by which its propagation will be effected; and I conclude by describing certain additional features indispensable to its completeness. My treatment of these questions will of course be summary: yet it will suffice, I hope, to overcome several excusable but unfounded prejudices. It will enable any competent reader to assure himself that the new general doctrine aims at something more than satisfying the Intellect; that it is in reality quite as favourable to Feeling and even to Imagination.
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
Positivism consists essentially of a Philosophy and a Polity. These can never be dissevered; the former being the basis, and the latter the end of one comprehensive system, in which our intellectual faculties and our social sympathies are brought into close correlation with each other. For, in the first place, the science of Society, besides being more important than any other, supplies the only logical and scientific link by which all our varied observations of phenomena can be brought into one consistent whole. Of this science it is even more true than of any of the preceding sciences, that its real character cannot be understood without explaining its exact relation in all general features with the art corresponding to it. Now here we find a coincidence which is assuredly not fortuitous.
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- A General View of Positivism , pp. 1 - 7Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1865
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