''A General View of Positivism'' (''Discours sur l'ensemble du positivisme'') is a 1844 book by the French philosopher

Auguste Comte Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte (; 19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857) was a French philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense ...

, first published in English in 1865. A founding text in the development of

positivism Positivism is an empiricist philosophical theory that holds that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positive—meaning ''a posteriori'' facts derived by reason and logic from sensory experience.John J. Macionis, Linda M. G ...

and the discipline of

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation an ...

, the work provides a revised and full account of the theory Comte presented earlier in his multi-part '' The Course in Positive Philosophy'' (1830–1842). Comte outlines the epistemological view of positivism, provides an account of the manner by which sociology should be performed, and describes his

law of three stages The law of three stages is an idea developed by Auguste Comte in his work ''The Course in Positive Philosophy''. It states that society as a whole, and each particular science, develops through three mentally conceived stages: (1) the theological ...

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*Comte, A.; Bridges, J.H. (tr.), ''A General View of Positivism''; Trubner and Co., 1865 (reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009; )

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