SOAN 2112 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Positive Psychology, Age Of Enlightenment, Social Dynamics
15 Jan 2016
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For him positive in his positive philosophy was explicitly polemical and was intended to be used as an ideological weapon with which to combat the philosophical legacy of the enlightenment along with the revolution. View the discussion quote on page 78. Comte saw a deplorable state of anarchy and believed that his social physics would help bring order to the chaos. He hoped to bring science to the attention of statement who say they have duty to this task. Thus, social and mora anarchy are the result of intellectual anarchy itself a consequence due to theological-metaphysical philosophy declining and that positive psychology has not reached the point where it can provide a good intellectual basis. Order and progress must be united once and for all because these two principles are regarded as contradictory and are represented by opposing political parties. The principle of order is derived from the catholic feudal while the progress is the reformation and the enlightenment.
