AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM

One of the foremost figures of Western intellectual thought in the late 19th century John Stuart Mill offered up examinations of human rights personal and societal rights and responsibilities and the striving for individual happiness that continue to impact our philosophies both private and political to this day This concise but explosive essay is perhaps the best example of how farreachingand necessary on an ongoing basishis thinking was In this 1865 work Mill discusses the rational religion of French philosopher and social scientist Auguste Comte reviewing his fellow thinker39s great treatise on human behavior as knowable quantifiable and correctable from both positive and negative angles endeavouring to sever the author writes what in our estimation is true from the much less which is erroneous