I was in Paris over the past few days and happened on “the shrine to Auguste Comte and Positivism that Maria blogged about a couple of years back”:https://crookedtimber.org/2003/10/27/were-only-human-after-all/ . Unfortunately it was closed, even though the notice on the door said it shouldn’t have been. Anyway, this post is just an illustration to (and reminder of) Maria’s one.
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a 05.02.06 at 8:51 am
His grave is in Pere Lachaise.
Chris Williams 05.02.06 at 9:05 am
Next best thing – Leicester Secular Hall. No Compte, but we’ve got Jesus, Paine, Socrates, Voltaire and Owen.
http://homepages.stayfree.co.uk/lss/busts.htm
SteveG 05.02.06 at 11:17 am
I love teaching Comte. Sure, his view of science is naive and ill-informed and his sociology simplistic and condescending, but that’s what makes his view so cute, so innocent. Inevitably, i will have an undergrad with wide eyes come up after class and say he or she has had the same ideas.
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