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...Antonio Feros Le Portugal au temps du comte-duc d’Olivares (1621–1640): Le conflict de jurisdictions comme exercise de la politique . By Schaub Jean-Frédéric . Bibliothèque de la Casa Velázquez , vol. 18 . Madrid : Casa de Velázquez , 2001 . Maps. Figures. Appendixes. Bibliography...

... of essays appearing in La Libertad , that authors who accepted the scientific method and shared an attitude of admiration for the use of the scientific method in the study of society were either inspired by Comte or accepted his philosophy of positivism. Yet positivism was much more than a method...

...Robert G. Nachman 62 Vita, Alberto Sales , p. 62. 61 Ibid. 60 Lins, História , p. 12. 59 On Comte’s thinking regarding the role of education, see Paul Arbousse-Bastide, La doctrine de l’éducation universelle dans la philosophie d’Auguste Comte , 2 vols. (Paris, 1957...

... This is an interesting book, both for the student of nineteenth-century Brazil and for those whose focus is chiefly on Brazil today. The fact that Brazilian intellectual and political circles at the time of the establishment of the Republic were greatly influenced by the positivist philosophy of Auguste Comte is well...

... justification of their interests. Barreda was a spokesman for the bourgeoisie, just as Comte was in France, and just as Mora was at an earlier stage in Mexico. Zea never defines the term “bourgeoisie,” which he draws from Justo Sierra, a contemporary. The book is devoid of social analysis, and even biographical...

... to make it an invaluable contribution toward a clearer understanding of the Porfiriato. . . . el lector queda confuso al analizar la obras de Zea. En su primer libro Zea equipara al positivismo con las actitudes de los científicos, refiriéndose a la filosofía de Comte; pero posteriormente, al hacer...

... with cases of original creation, in terms of both political thought and political theory.….” 10 From these premises, I will begin my present analysis. “Positivism” and “positivist” are two neologisms forever linked to the person and teachings of Auguste Comte. Émile Littré in his Dictionnaire de...

... later Constant was minister of war and his family guests of honor at the farewell dinner for the Chileans. The relationship of Lt. Col. Benjamin Constant Botelho de Magalhães to the Military Youth is a major theme of this book. Castro’s Constant is an unassuming professor more interested in Comte’s...

... the imperial era. Graham makes an important contribution in examining the Brazilian reception of Herbert Spencer’s thought, a topic generally slighted because of Comte’s influence. Such diverse figures as Alberto Sales, Silvio Romero, and Joaquim Murtinho chose Spencer over Comte in their search...

... the goal of material progress alone. Thus the liberals offered a “positivism in action” independent of Comte and Spencer. On balance, while providing in its commitments to laissez-faire, education and immigration a formula for progress, and in its constitutional and centralized governmental programs...

... them principally to gain direct access to European authors. Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, Auguste Comte, Leopold von Ranke, Friedrich Ratzel, François Pierre Guillaume Guizot, Jules Michelet, Thomas B. Macaulay, Henry Thomas Buckle, Thomas Carlyle as well as the philosophes of the European...

... translated into Italian, German, and French. In the essay “Arosemena,” the author maintains that positivism sui generis appeared in Latin America simultaneously with and independently of Comte’s writing in Europe. The Panamanian, Justo Arosemena, is pointed out as a prime example of native positivism...

... contributes, particularly, to broadening the scope of what positivism really meant in Venezuela as a method of analysis: not merely the application of the doctrines of Auguste Comte or Herbert Spencer, but the eclectic use of a wide range of current works on the social sciences as a whole. Gil Fortoul did...

... upon each problem. These influences range from early French and British thought (resulting in positivism à la Comte and Spencer and the reactionary response of idealism and anarchism) to more recent trends such as reformist Marxism, reformist Catholic thought, the modernizing military, Aprista Social...

... as an interregnum. Just as in much of the rest of Latin America, a struggle between tradition and change led to a substitution of the example of France for that of Spain, as the governing oligarchy shifted in small increments toward the modernization and positivism of Auguste Comte. Also during these years...

... textbooks as well as the role of the public school. Finally, historians became involved in discussing, sometimes quite heatedly, new intellectual currents like Comte’s Positivism. As Woll convincingly argues, Chile’s historical scholars, while remaining true to their craft, willingly subordinated...

... that 19th century dogma on the map of the whole continent, in Cuba, Chile, Brazil, and Argentina as well as Mexico. The sociology of Spencer and the positivism of Comte, usually identified, are here intelligently separated. While the sense of evolution and progress pervades both, they challenged Latin...

... surprising nor unnecessary for it is seldom unproductive to reflect on the persistence of history. Even Auguste Comte, a man notoriously disinclined to diffidence, especially when appraising the adequacy of his new science of society, was convinced that without history there could be no sociology...

.... Despite achieving little success in financial and technical areas, during the last century and the first decades of the present one France in Latin America had no equal in intellectual and cultural influence, particularly in Brazil and the Southern Cone. Such influence was so marked that Comte’s “Order...

... sophisticated methodology, frames of reference, taxonomies, and syntheses, we must have more empirical studies, which are not now available. Underlying all the articles is the assumption that research in the social sciences can be applied and be useful for policy planners. Captivated by Comte...