Auguste Comte
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Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte was a French philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense
Comte in 1849
Tomb of Auguste Comte
Positivist temple in Porto Alegre
Religion of Humanity
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Religion of Humanity is a secular religion proposed by Auguste Comte, the founder of positivist philosophy. Adherents of this religion have built chapels of Humanity in Brazil and France.
Auguste Comte
…into modern academic sociology presented by Émile Durkheim as practical and objective social research. Comte's social theories culminated in his "Religion of Humanity", which presaged the development of non-theistic religious humanist and secular humanist organizations in the 19th century. He may also have coined the…
Chapelle of humanity in Paris, property of the Positivist Church of Brazil.
Positivist temple in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Erlon Jacques de Oliveira, Temple guardian in Porto Alegre
Portrait of de Clotilde de Vaux in the Chapel of Humanity, Paris