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(English) SOCIOLOGY - Auguste Comte (DownSub - Com)
(English) SOCIOLOGY - Auguste Comte (DownSub - Com)
Comte was born into a strict Catholic family in Montpelier in Southern France in
1798.
and became obsessed with the idea of building a new kind of France based around
science and republicanism.
His family violently disagreed and broke off relations with him
so he went to live in Paris, where he became a student of, and later, secretary to
But Comte had a quarrelsome nature and fell out with Saint-Simon, failed to get a
university post,
and in 1827, attempted suicide by jumping off the Pont des Arts in Paris.
In 1844, he fell deeply in love with a married woman called Clotilde de Vaux
After her premature death, Comte made his love for Clotilde
Comte did manage to gain the trust and interest of the important British
philosopher, John Stuart Mill,
who admired his efforts around religion, and helped Comte to be better known in
Britain.
At the same time, Comte recognized, as many of his more rational contemporaries did
not,
that a secular society devoted just to financial accumulation and romantic love
but rather to pick out the more relevant and secular aspects
and fuse them together with certain insights drawn from philosophy, art, and
science.
The result?
tended to cement their authority by providing people with daily, and even hourly,
and every day to an individual who had made a valuable contribution within these
categories.
before letting people out into the world to destroy themselves and others
and proposed that his girlfriend, Clotilde, take the function previously accorded
within Catholism
and when one was down, one was invited to share one's sorrows
Because Comte appreciated the role that architecture had once played
Comte thought it was wiser to coax them into supporting good causes.
Inside the temples of humanity, there would be lectures, singing, celebrations, and
public discussions.
While around the walls, sumptuous works of art would commemorate the greatest
moments
Finally, above the west-facing stage, there would be a large aphorism written in
golden letters,
the Crown Prince of Denmark, three hundred bankers, and the head of the parish
sewage system.
The Chapelle de L'humanite was opened at 5 Rue Payenne in Paris, where it still
stands to this day,
and became a well known venue for secular baptisms, funeral services, weddings and
sermons.
Comte's religion crossed the channel,
this don opened the Church of Humanity in Lamb Conduit Street in London,
where it was put into practice by some students that Comte had taught in Paris in
the 1840s.
connected to doctrinal squabbles about the place of Western authors and their
liturgy,
meant that the movement failed to grow into a truly popular religion.
And yet it acquired a small and permanent place in Brazil's spiritual life.
at 74 Rua Benjamin Constant audiences, who make up in intensity of what they lack
for in numbers,