History
INTRODUCTION
History is a subject of practical social relevance of the past(Tosh,1984). The important issue tosh insist that history could speak of practical social relevance to mean actual events happened to the society at the past when they represented by the historians is what could be suitable to be regarded as history.
History is a recreation of the true picture of important persons,places,events of the past for the present and future generation (Amaele,2003 in Samuel, et all,2006).
Generally, history is the record past information purposely to determine what happened in the past for the aim to reconstruct the present and put proper plan basing in prediction for future.
Philosophy is the study of the foundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence, especially when considered an academic discipline(Parkinson,1988).
Philosophy of history is the philosophical study of history and its discipline(Voltaire, 1765).
BACKGROUND OF COMTE'S
The full name of comte's was Isidore Marie Auguste francois Xavier Comte, born on 19 January 1798 in montpellier,France and death on 5 September 1857(aged 59) paris,France. Comte's was First French philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism.he is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term. The following was the comte's philosopher of history.
History is the study that cause social changes. He held that the underlying princples of the society are individual egoism, which is encouraged by the division of labour and the combination of effort and the maintainance of social cohession by means of the government and the state.
The law of classification of the science also has the historical aspects. It gives up the oprder in which the science develop. Forexample astronomy requires mathematics and chemistry requires physics. Each science thus needs upon one that prececes it.
History is at once everywhere and nowhere it is not a displine but a method of sociology. Dynamic sociology is a history without names of men or even of people.
Comte`s belief in the importance of sociology as the scientific study of human society remains an article of faith among contemporal sociologists, and the work h, he accomplished remains a remarkable synthesis and an important system of thought.
Postivismhas always reffused to seperate the philosophy of science from the history of science. According to postivism one does not realy know a science until one knows its history[Might 1986]
Philosophy of science is not a phylosophy of nature but of the mind, he like wise valuesthe history of science less as a subject in its own right than as the most important yet, sofar mor neglected part of the development[Bourdeau, 2018].
History is the study of the forces that has society together theological, metaohysical and postivists. Comte discussed the difference between the social statistics and the social dynamics which have renamed social structure and social changes. Comte`s ideas have had a major role in developing structural functionalism. Its major goal was to intergrate theory and practice[Scharff, 1995].
Comte has classified law of three stages.The law states that in its development humanity passes through three succesiful stages. The theological the metaphysical and the postive. The first is neccesary starting point for the human mind, the last it is a normal state.
The second stage is transion stage that makes possible the passage from the first to the last. In the theological stage the human mind in its search for the primary and final cause of the phenomena explain the apparent anomalities in the universe as the intervantion of supernatural agents.
Comte revealed his conception of the ideas, postivists society in his system of postive policy. He believed that the organization of the Roman catholic church divorced from christian theology, could provide a structural and symbolic model for the new society. ''Through comte he substuted a religion of humanity.
CONCLUSION
To some up, Comte deal with the positivism distinctive features, the science of sociology in the several stages such as empiriocriticism, logical positivism and logical empiricism. Also he was pure logical and pure mathematic. The law of classification of the science and the methods of sociology, philosophy of mind.After his death influenced depended more an dissident followers than on orthodox posivitist such as pierre Laffite in France and Richard Congreve and Frederic Harrison in England.
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