Comte: Rebuilding Society After Revolution's Chaos! #shorts

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]The last of his works or he the last thing he finished was the system of of positive politics.

[00:00:05]And this was produced between 1851 and 54. And as Comte himself said, you cannot separate the philosophy from the polity. In other words, this is a theory of history and a theory of knowledge, but it also is a normative theory about how societies ought to be run and how I could improve upon the society we happen to have. Remember, he's living in the shadow of the French Revolution. He is terrified by the revolutions of 1848. And what he wants to do is impose an old-fashioned, backward-looking, organic order on this very dynamic society. So, Comte in that respect is a reactionary thinker looking back to an earth with a nostalgia for a lost innocence, to an earlier time when we had an organic unity to society.