<b>Introduction to the question of first philosophy in Comte</b> - doi: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v32i2.9369

Abstract

Our intention is to present briefly in this work an introduction to the question of the first philosophy in Auguste Comte, a French scientist and philosopher who proposed a scientific moral which is at the same time theoretical or moral in itself, and practice or education. He was the founder of scientific sociology as well as of positive philosophy or positivism, and also the founder of an anti-supernaturalist religion, the religion of humanity. Our purpose is to try to clarify the apparent contradiction between the fact that Comte fights and overcomes metaphysics and the fact that he proposes a first philosophy, the name of the Aristotelian work that was later called metaphysics; and thus contribute to a better knowledge of Comte’s philosophy. We concluded that it was not a return to metaphysics that he wanted to overcome, but a return to a necessary metaphysics, such as first philosophy, to serve as a theoretical-methodological milestone for the scientific philosophy(ies) or, in other words, in Comte’s case, for positivist philosophy.