Private visit of the house of Auguste Comte,Ingeneer and Philosopher (Paris 75006)
Visits
Tuesday 4 October 2016
14:30 - 16:00
Bienvenue à Paris takes you for a moving and interesting visit !
Born in 1798, Auguste Comte was an alumni and Professor at the Polytechnic School with a complex and eclectic personality.
He met the utopian socialist Henri Saint-Simon and became his secretary. In 1825, he married Caroline Massin and started to have psychological troubles. He went to the clinic of the famous Doctor Esquirol and came out before being cured.
He moved in 1841 with his wife to a building located close to the Luxembourg garden. His wife left him one year after. He met Clotilde de Vaux but she died soon from tuberculosis.
Influenced by Saint-Simon, Comte developed the épositive philosophyé in an attempt to remedy the social malaise of the French revolution calling for a new social doctrine based on the sciences. He was a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism. He is sometimes regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term
After his death in 1857, the apartment hasn’t changed. Registered as an historical monument in 1928 it was renovated in 1960 by Paulo Carneiro, brasilian, chemist and Ambassador at the UNESCO organism.
Participation: 20€ / member – 25€ / non-member