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| In the mid-1850s, Marian Evans, as she called herself upon reaching adulthood (rather than her given name of Mary Ann), translated into English the work of Auguste Comte, the French father of sociology, Benedict Spinoza's Ethics, and the German work of Ludwig Feuerbach's The Es sence of Christianity. Describing it as the "bedrock source of human knowledge" about the "social and natural world," Adler and Adler (1994) stated that Aristotle used observational techniques in his botanical studies on tile island of Lesbos and that Auguste Comte, the father of sociology, listed observation as one of the "four core research methods" (p. Lacking the kin support of a Burckhardt, or a Macaulay, Auguste Comte was thrown entirely upon his own resources. |
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Auguste Comte - French philosopher remembered as the founder of positivism; he also established sociology as a systematic field of study