For it is only by knowing the laws of phenomena, and thus being able to foresee them, that we can... set them to modify one another for our advantage.. From Science comes prevision from Prevision comes Action. "(Savoir pour prevoiret revoir pour pouvoir 2021/221 16
2021/2/21 16 • "For it is only by knowing the laws of phenomena, and thus being able to foresee them, that we can . . . set them to modify one another for our advantage. . . . From Science comes Prevision; from Prevision comes Action." (Savoir pour prevoir et prevoir pour pouvoir.)
The law of Human Progress the theological---the metaphysical--- the positive Comte pointed out that the evolution of the human mind passed through three successive stages: the theological---the metaphysical--- the positive 2021/221 17
2021/2/21 17 • The Law of Human Progress • the theological---the metaphysical--- the positive • Comte pointed out that the evolution of the human mind passed through three successive stages: the theological---the metaphysical--- the positive
At the positive stage, which rejects the validity of metaphysical speculation, the existence of final causes and the knowableness of the absolute. and confines itself to the study of experimental facts and their relations, represents the perfection of human knowledge 2021/221 18
2021/2/21 18 • At the positive stage, which rejects the validity of metaphysical speculation, the existence of final causes, and the knowableness of the absolute, and confines itself to the study of experimental facts and their relations, represents the perfection of human knowledge
The fundamental principle of Positivism is that sense experience is the only object of human knwledge. science cannot be. as Aristotle conceived it, the knowledge of things through their ultimate causes since material and formal causes are unknowable. final causes illusions while metaphysics, under any form, is illegitimate. Positivism is thus a continuation of crude empiricism and associationism. on m 2021/221 19
2021/2/21 19 • The fundamental principle of Positivism is that sense experience is the only object of human knwledge. science cannot be, as Aristotle conceived it, the knowledge of things through their ultimate causes, since material and formal causes are unknowable, final causes illusions, while metaphysics, under any form, is illegitimate. Positivism is thus a continuation of crude Empiricism and Associationism.onism
Chapter Two: Herbert Spencer (1820--1903) Person Spencer was born on April 27, 1820, in Derby. England. Herbert Spencer did not attend a regular school. his father educated him at home. At the age of 13, spencer received his further education from his uncle. Spencer leaned heavily on the scientific side but his latin and greek were weak and his knowledge of history was superficial 2021/221 20
2021/2/21 20 Chapter Two: Herbert Spencer (1820---1903) • Person • Spencer was born on April 27, 1820, in Derby, England. Herbert Spencer did not attend a regular school. His father educated him at home. At the age of 13, Spencer received his further education from his uncle. Spencer leaned heavily on the scientific side but his Latin and Greek were weak and his knowledge of history was superficial