Auguste Comte and Positivism: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Auguste Comte and Positivism, credited to John Stuart Mill, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Auguste Comte and Positivism by 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Auguste Comte and Positivism
• Author credits: John Stuart Mill
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 5:47:12

Catalogue topics

• non-fiction
• advice
• biography
• history
• instruction
• philosophy
• religion
• science

Track guide

1. 01 - Part 1A — 34:46
2. 02 - Part 1B — 33:24
3. 03 - Part 1C — 42:43
4. 04 - Part 1D — 26:35
5. 05 - Part 1E — 29:24
6. 06 - Part 1F — 29:20
7. 07 - Part 1G — 19:22
8. 08 - Part 2A — 26:44
9. 09 - Part 2B — 26:26
10. 10 - Part 2C — 29:19
11. 11 - Part 2D — 20:22
12. 12 - Part 2E — 28:49

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