The Catechism of Positive Religion: Or Summary Exposition of the Universal Religion in Thirteen Systematic Conversations between a Woman and a Priest of Humanity

Auguste Comte; Richard Congreve

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The Catechism of Positive Religion

Or Summary Exposition of the Universal Religion in Thirteen Systematic Conversations between a Woman and a Priest of Humanity

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Auguste Comte
Translated by Richard Congreve

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: October 2010
Print publication year:: 2009
First published in:: 1891
Online ISBN:: 9780511692963
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511692963

Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - Religion
Subjects:: History, Religion, Theology, Religion: General Interest, History of Ideas and Intellectual History

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This English edition of The Catechism of Positive Religion was published in 1891, thirty-four years after the death of Comte, the French philosopher of science and politics and founder of positivism, whose work was widely read in the later nineteenth century. Comte's self-published French original of 1852, translated here, outlines his progressive ideal of 'sociocracy', which would provide a systematic basis, free of metaphysics, for intellectual and moral transactions among humans. Congreve's edition, in common with others, divides the book into five parts. The introduction contains two dialogues, entitled General Theory of Religion and Theory of Humanity. Parts 1–3 respectively consider the Positivist's private and public 'worship'; 'doctrine', including the external world and human society and ethics; and 'regime' or way of life, private and public. The final two dialogues cover polytheism, monotheism and theocracy. This book remains of interest as an early precursor of secular humanist ethics.

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The Catechism of Positive Religion

Or Summary Exposition of the Universal Religion in Thirteen Systematic Conversations between a Woman and a Priest of Humanity

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

PREFATORY NOTE TO THIRD EDITTON
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

PREFACE
pp 1-26

POSITIVIST LIBRARY
pp 27-30

HINT TO THE READER
pp 31-32

INTRODUCTION

CONVERSATION I - General Theory of Religion
pp 33-48

CONVERSATION II - Theory of Humanity
pp 48-57

First Part - EXPLANATION OF THE WORSHIP

CONVERSATION III - The Worship as a Whole
pp 58-83

CONVERSATION IV - Private Worship
pp 83-97

CONVERSATION V - Public Worship
pp 97-112

Second Part - EXPLANATION OF THE DOCTRINE

CONVERSATION VI - The Doctrine as a Whole
pp 113-140

CONVERSATION VII - The External Order, first Inorganic, then Vital
pp 140-159

CONVERSATION VIII - The Human Order, first Social, then Moral
pp 159-187

Third Part - EXPLANATION OF THE REGIME, OR SYSTEM OF LIFE

CONVERSATION IX - The Regime as a whole
pp 188-212

CONVERSATION X - Private Life
pp 212-229

CONVERSATION XI - Public life
pp 229-254

CONCLUSION: GENERAL HISTORY OF RELIGION

CONVERSATION XII - The Fetichist and Theocratic period common to all Peoples
pp 255-269

CONVERSATION XIII - The Transition of the West
pp 269-294

TABLES
pp 295-303

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