Comte (Isidore-) Auguste (-Marie-François-Xavier)

Japanese: コント（英語表記）Comte， (Isidore-) Auguste (-Marie-François-Xavier)

Born January 19, 1798 in Montpellier
Died September 5, 1857. Paris. French positivist philosopher and founder of sociology. Also a mathematician. He studied at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris from 1814, and became a mathematics teacher in Paris from 1816. In 1832 he became a seminar instructor at the Ecole Polytechnique, but in 1842 he clashed with the school authorities and quit. After that, he spent his life as a researcher with the help of JS Mill and French patrons. Comte considered social history to be the history of the development of human knowledge, and advocated the "law of three stages" la loi des trois états, theological, metaphysical, and empirical. He made it his goal to raise sociology, which was the most backward at the time, to the final stage, the empirical stage. His sociology is divided into social statics and social dynamics, the former dealing with social structure and the latter with social change (→ social statics and social dynamics). His major works are "Lectures on Positive Philosophy" (6 volumes, 1830-42) and "System of Positive Political Science" (4 volumes, 51-54).

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A French word meaning short story. In English it often means a short adventure novel, while in Japanese it refers to a light-hearted short story full of wit and satire, or a very short, witty, flash-fiction novel.

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[生]1798.1.19. モンペリエ
[没]1857.9.5. パリ
フランス実証派哲学者で社会学の創始者。数学者でもある。 1814年からパリのエコール・ポリテクニクで学び，16年からパリで数学教師。 32年にエコール・ポリテクニクの演習指導員となったが，42年に学校当局と衝突してやめ，その後は J.S.ミルやフランスの後援者に助けられながら研究生活をおくった。コントは社会史を人間の知識の発展史とし，神学的，形而上学的および実証的な「三段階の法則」 la loi des trois étatsを主張した。そして，当時最も遅れていた社会学をその最後の段階とした実証的段階に引上げることを自己の課題とした。彼の社会学は社会静学と社会動学に区分され，前者で社会構造を後者で社会変動を取扱っている (→社会静学・社会動学 ) 。主著『実証哲学講義』 Cours de philosophie positive (6巻，1830～42) ，『実証政治学体系』 Système de politique positive (4巻，51～54) 。