Auguste Comte’s concept of systematic obsolescence, by which all truly unarguable views must spontaneously fade away
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.4000/philosophiascientiae.3396" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.4000/philosophiascientiae.3396</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/philosophiascientiae.3396" target="_blank" >10.4000/philosophiascientiae.3396</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Auguste Comte’s concept of systematic obsolescence, by which all truly unarguable views must spontaneously fade away
Original language description
The usual account of Auguste Comte, thinker of the “positive” science, overshadows his attention to the “spectacle of destruction” (and of obsolescence), to which the metaphysical state of human knowledge and humanity offers the stage. I first illustrate the understanding of this Comtian metaphysical state as both a progressive and self-destructive transformation of “theology”, using an example drawn from the history of astronomy (Longomontanus). The broader relevance of this conception is then assessed in the field of social philosophy, so that the realm of natural sciences is finally re-examined with the analysis of Comte’s criticisms of the theory of chemical affinity (Berthollet).
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Philosophia Scientiae
ISSN
1281-2463
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Volume of the periodical
26
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
FR - FRANCE
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
111-131
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