Auguste Comte and Positivism
John Stuart Mill
Read by Bill Boerst
Part 1 lays out the framework for Positivism as originated in France by Auguste Comte in his Cours de Philosophie Positive. Mill examines the tenets of Comte's movement and alerts us to defects. Part 2 concerns all Comte's writings except the Cours de Philosophie Positive. During Comte's later years he gave up reading newspapers and periodicals to keep his mind pure for higher study. He also became enamored of a certain woman who changed his view of life. Comte turned his philosophy into a religion, with morality the supreme guide. Mill finds that Comte learned to despise science and the intellect, instead substituting his frantic need for the regulation of change. (Summary by Bill Boerst) (5 hr 47 min)
Chapters
01 - Part 1A | 34:46 | Read by Bill Boerst |
02 - Part 1B | 33:24 | Read by Bill Boerst |
03 - Part 1C | 42:43 | Read by Bill Boerst |
04 - Part 1D | 26:35 | Read by Bill Boerst |
05 - Part 1E | 29:23 | Read by Bill Boerst |
06 - Part 1F | 29:20 | Read by Bill Boerst |
07 - Part 1G | 19:22 | Read by Bill Boerst |
08 - Part 2A | 26:44 | Read by Bill Boerst |
09 - Part 2B | 26:26 | Read by Bill Boerst |
10 - Part 2C | 29:19 | Read by Bill Boerst |
11 - Part 2D | 20:22 | Read by Bill Boerst |
12 - Part 2E | 28:48 | Read by Bill Boerst |
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GeoffreyEdwards
Thank you for this great solo recording. Very interesting to listen to.