He developed a famous "law of three stages" dividing history into theological, metaphysical, and scientific phases, each representing an advancement over the previous.
He developed a famous "law of three stages" dividing history into theological, metaphysical, and scientific phases, each representing an advancement over the previous. Science was further subdivided into a schema of succession beginning with math and progressing to biology and then sociology, a term that he himself coined. For ten points, identify this French social thinker of the 19th century, the founder of the school of positivism.
He developed a famous "law of three stages" dividing history into theological, metaphysical, and scientific phases, each representing an advancement over the previous.
Auguste Comte