Auguste Comte was a French philosopher who founded sociology as a discipline and developed positivism, the doctrine that only scientific knowledge is valid knowledge.
Comte's three-stage law holds that every branch of knowledge passes through theological, metaphysical, and positive (scientific) phases; his Religion of Humanity attempted to create a secular religion organized around veneration of great human benefactors.
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