COMTE, Cours de philosophie positive, 1864

Second edition with an expanded preface by Émile Littré, his main disciple.
Auguste Comte (1798-1857) is the founder of positivism and sociology. His Cours de philosophie positive, originally published in six volumes between 1830 and 1842, is his major work, which sets out the whole of his philosophical and scientific thought. Volume I: General Preliminaries and Mathematical Philosophy. Volume II: Astronomical Philosophy and the Philosophy of Physics. Volume III: Chemical Philosophy and Biological Philosophy. Volume IV: The Dogmatic Part of Social Philosophy. Volume V: The Historical Part of Social Philosophy in Everything Concerning the Theological and Metaphysical States. Volume VI: The Complement of Social Philosophy and General Conclusions.