SOCIOLOGY - Auguste Comte

The 19th century thinker Auguste Comte invented a religion without a God in it. It was a fascinating move that deserves to be studied today.

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Produced in collaboration with Reflective Films

[logictruth]

As much as i knew from the moment i heard the idea that it was going to be ridiculed it was still depressing to hear.
Humanity can be so upsetting sometimes...
Thanks for honoring that great man The School of life!

[Anarcath]

You forgot to discuss Comte's most important contribution: logical positivism.

[PelegTsadok]

Seems like he is a big inspiration on the School of Life

[Thisguysgoinplaces]

Dear School of Life,

I would really appreciate an Anthropology series of videos. I think it would be fascinating learning about actual human practices all around our planet. Thank you for all you do.

[egangray]

this has literally been my pet theory for such a long time but I've never heard it verbalized by a philosopher, this makes me very happy

[brunfranc]

The words in the brazilian flag where actually taken from Comte.

[arkhie]

Music, according to Auguste Compte, is the most social in all art forms.

[DeyvsonMoutinhoCaliman]

When I was a teenager I didn't have internet, so I would go to the public library and read the classics. His work was so strange that I never forgot it. I was also an atheist, but to me it seemed to stupid to make an atheist religion. Then he was mention in university when I studied, but he was just dismissed as a "positivist". He wrote indeed a lot about positivism, which was anti-revolutionary, since France saw the violence and stupidity that happens in revolutions. As such, he was just dismissed by Marxists when I was in college. But his work is indeed the work of a madman. Just kidding, I know a person with schizophrenia and I know they are not eccentrics, they just go through phases of mental instability. He also, when talking about positivism, wrote the phrase "order and progress", which is written on the flag of my country, Brazil. I didn't expect it to be mentioned in the video, never knew he had influence here.

[marcellofabrizio]

Actualy, the influence in Brazil wasn't just in churches and social groups. The ideas of Comte inspired the military to take down the Brazilian Empire in a coup and forming the United States of Brazil.

[arete]

Create a cult they said, it will be fun they said...

[EpicMRPancake]

Why do these philosophers and thinkers always have such miserable lives?

[nickedani]

Hearing about some cities of my country made me fell silly happy! I've been watching SOL for months now daily, religiously! for the first time something about Brazil! Appreciate all the shared knowledge in this channel!

[GabdeVue]

Thank you for teaching me about this fascinating person and his endeavors!

[waqasaps]

he is known as the father of sociology, he also introduced positivism

[lfsmoura]

The religion was so important for Brazil that we still carry the words "order and progress" in our national flag.

[hjdvshjbdshbjhd]

When you mentioned the calendar and honouring certain things on specific days and months etc. I was reminded of the book 'We' by Yevgeny Zamyatin, where the society us run solely off a 'Table of Hours'. Could you do a video on him as part of your LITERATURE series? It's an amazing book and he was an amazing 'Soviet heretic', and the book itself is very reminiscent of Comte's beliefs. The society he builds in 'We' has abandoned religion and focuses heavily on people, society and 'the now.'

[Mitsunosai]

This is surreal. I go to a Unitarian Universalist church which has a very wide gathering of beliefs promising to treat each other well, and help each other where we can. There is a large number of members who hold these ideas very dearly.

It is very nice to see some of the history of a line of thinking that is so much a part of my religious life.

[ThePeaceableKingdom]

Bravo SOL for focusing not on the conventional usage of Comte but the more interesting idiosyncrasy of his thought. Bravo!

"Every valuable purpose which religion serves is also served by art; and art perhaps serves more... if we are to say that its range of good objects and emotions is wider." - G. E. Moore

[Eusdu]

"You better check yo self before you wreck yo self" ~ Auguste Comte

[ryGreg]

As a pantheist, I've always wondered about the possibility of a secular religion. I'm so glad to see that someone already has established this. The idea is very appealing.