My interpretation: Love as the driver Order as the vehicle and the road Progress as the destination
I think positivism inherently believes that a society can be improved by instituting the same rigorous level of empirical study across the board. The motivating factor would be an altruistic (maybe humanist or deist) belief system that drives societal improvement. Some contrasting ideas would be a Platonic system that believes humanity can become better by being more virtuous, naturalist belief systems, systems that deal in eternal, unchanging principles, and those systems of thought that are more based in the critical theory school. On Oct 31, 11:12 am, [email protected] wrote: > "Order and Progress" is how the Brazilians understand it. > > This is used on the national flag. > > But I'm not too sure what Comte actually intended. He was a secretary / > student > of Saint-Simon. There was a Comtean utopian community on Long Island > in the 19th century. At the town of Brentwood. > > How do you interpret Comte's slogan ? > > Billy > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 10/31/2011 7:50:55 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] > writes: > > Auguste Compte's motto of positivism. Thoughts? > > -- > Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community > <[email protected]> > Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism > Radical Centrism website and blog:http://RadicalCentrism.org -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
