Concept
Religion of Humanity
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secular religion of Auguste Comte
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Thus the religion of Humanity creates an intellectual and moral power, which, could human life be freed from the pressure of material wants, would suffice for its guidance. Imperfect as our nature assuredly is, yet social sympathy has an intrinsic charm which would make it paramount, but for the imperious necessities by which the instincts of self-preservation are stimulated.
Auguste Comte, A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life
The chapter “CONCLUSION. THE RELIGION OF HUMANITY” is titled for Religion of Humanity; the author is tied to Religion of Humanity in the knowledge graph.
The first division M. Comte, in his great work, treats in a much more summary manner than the second; and it forms, to our thinking, the weakest part of the treatise. He can hardly have seemed even to himself to have originated, in the statics of society, anything new,[15] unless his revival of the Catholic idea of a Spiritual Power may be so considered. The remainder, with the exception of detached thoughts, in…
John Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte and Positivism
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It is but just to say that this work is a considerable improvement, in many points of feeling, over Comte's previous writings on the same subjects: but as an accession to social philosophy, the only value it seems to me to possess, consists in putting an end to the notion that no effectual moral authority can be maintained over society without the aid of religious belief; for Comte's work recognises no religion…
John Stuart Mill, Autobiography
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