Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff [1910...

Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff [1910; Substance and Function], treats concept formation to which he brought a Kantian slant a concept is already pre-existent before any task involving the classification of particulars can even be performed; humankind is essentially characterized by a unique ability to use the "symbolic forms" of myth, language, and science in structuring or imaging experience and in understanding.

4.11 MODERN PHILOSOPHY: FRENCH AND BRITISH NINETEENTH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY Beginnings of Positivism, And its Interaction with Empiricism After the French Enlightenment, there was a positivist reaction against sensationalism and materialism in France, but the various movements do not possess the vigor to satisfy an age which still held the ideals of liberty, equality, fraternity. 4.11.1 Claude Henri de Saint-Simon [1760-1825]: a new science of society.

To reform society with a basis in Christian love we need to turn away from the [then] period of skepticism negation and criticism we need a positive philosophy 4.11.2 August Comte [1798-1857] His motive: social reform requires social science.

Science is natural laws which are facts and relations which are positive knowledge 4.11.2.1 Stages of knowledge According to Comte: The theological precedes the metaphysical which precedes the positive which is real, useful [origins: utilitarianism], exact [not mere negative, that is, criticism] Previous…