Una visión general del positivismo
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Texto limpio
- Extensión:
- ~150.000 palabras · 704 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APAAuguste Comte. (n.d.). Una visión general del positivismo. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/auguste-comte/a-general-view-of-positivism
- MLAAuguste Comte. "Una visión general del positivismo." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/auguste-comte/a-general-view-of-positivism.
- ChicagoAuguste Comte. Una visión general del positivismo. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/auguste-comte/a-general-view-of-positivism.
De qué trata
El resumen que Comte hizo él mismo del positivismo, publicado en 1848: la puerta de entrada breve a una obra que de otro modo son seis volúmenes.
Contexto e historia
El original francés es el «Discours sur l'ensemble du positivisme». Aquí están, en pocas páginas, la ley de los tres estados —teológico, metafísico, positivo—, la clasificación de las ciencias y la idea de que la sociología debe completarlas. Pero está también el otro Comte, el que suele quedar fuera de los manuales: el que sostiene que una sociedad no se mantiene solo con conocimiento, y que propone una «religión de la humanidad» con su calendario y sus santos laicos. Mill, que lo admiraba, encontró esa segunda parte deplorable, y la discusión dura desde entonces. Vale la pena leerlo para ver las dos cosas juntas, que es como Comte las pensaba.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
Although Positivism has been pretty widely discussed of late, not only by those interested in philosophy and religion, but by the general reader and the public press, perhaps but few of them, whether readers or critics, have exactly grasped the full meaning of it as a system at once of thought and of life. The vast range of the ground it covers and the technical, allusive, and close style of Comte’s writings in the original have made it difficult to master the subject as a whole. It has accordingly been thought that the time has come to add to the ‘New Universal Library’ a translation of _The General View of Positivism_, i.e., the careful summary of the _Positive Polity_ which Auguste Comte prefixed to the four volumes of his principal work. The translation which was published by Dr. J. H. Bridges in 1865 is at the same time a most accurate version by one of Comte’s earliest followers, and also it is turned in an easy and simpler style, with the references and allusions explained, marginal headings to the paragraphs, and a complete analysis of the contents. Positivism is not simply a system of Philosophy; nor is it simply a new form of Religion; nor is it simply a scheme of social regeneration. It partakes of all of these, and professes to harmonize them under one dominant conception that is equally philosophic and social. ‘Its primary object,’ writes Comte, ‘is twofold: to generalize our scientific conceptions and to systematize the art of social life.’ Accordingly Comte’s ideal embraces the three main elements of which human life consists--Thoughts, Feelings and Actions. Now it is clear that no such comprehensive system was ever before offered to the world. Neither the Gospel nor any known type of religion undertook to give a synthetic grouping of the Sciences. No synthetic scheme of philosophy ever attempted to correlate religion, politics, art, and industry.…