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Article publié dans le Bulletin de la Maison d’Auguste Comte, N° 16, décembre 2016 Clotilde de Vaux et Auguste Comte: la « correspondance sacrée » [1]: Qui lit aujourd’hui la correspondance d’Auguste Comte et de Clotilde de Vaux ? Qui prend le temps...

The Maison d'Auguste Comte, also known as the Musée Auguste Comte, is a private museum and archive dedicated to positivist philosopher Auguste Comte (1798-1857). It is maintained by the Association internationale Auguste Comte, located in the 6th arrondissement...

"In Carl Sagan's rendition of this legend these anti-Copernican scholars are not merely transformed into 'skeptical ecclesiastics' but--for added dramatic effect--high officials of the Church.  Sagan accomplishes this embellishment by borrowing an illustration...

By Thomas Burnett A scientist, my dear friends, is a man who foresees; it is because science provides the means to predict that it is useful, and the scientists are superior to all other men. –Henri de Saint-Simon Scientism is a rather strange word...

Over the nearly seven years I’ve spent blogging on The Archdruid Report, the themes of my weekly posts have veered back and forth between pragmatic ways to deal with the crisis of our time and the landscape of ideas that give those steps their...