five minutes in the company of comte with was born in montpellier in 1798 and died in paris in 1857 or visconti and the greatest exponent of positivism that philosophy that culture that vision of a world that elevates the sciences to maximum power as an instrument and end of humanity positivism will be the hegemonic philosophical current in europe between the middle and the end of the nineteenth century and the starting point of count and the success of the scientific method scientific method that must therefore be extended to all areas of knowledge and the rationality of positivism is a real universal rationality that makes the empirical method of the experimental and laboratory method the method to investigate understand reality is therefore the method experimental sciences must become the philosophical method par excellence and must tolerate all the other philosophical or para- scientific methodologies that have instead been hegemonic in europe from ancient greece up to idealism a german in the nineteenth century starting point of count and use the sciences to investigate the factuality of nature investigate the data of nature interpret nature phenomena starting from facts to the metaphysical religion of Plato to the metaphysical religion of the idealists that is, philosophies and metaphysics are therefore religions it opposes and is against the religion of the fact of the facts what matters are the facts knowing the facts means knowing the phenomena yes or I know the phenomena the place therefore understanding governing dominating is evident here the Baconian echo of this perspective that is, if man knows nature he can dominate it he knows what the end is the end of the domination of nature and the improvement of the living conditions of humanity is therefore a man who through the scientific method comes to improve the community human civilization I know to act I know nature to dominate it I know nature to improve the living conditions of the place maximum trust therefore comparisons of the sciences at this point counts in his greatest work which is entitled courses of positive philosophy he will elaborate what is the famous law of the three lent states of human history here too there is an important philosophical reference in this case the reference is to the laws of history the three stages of history of Vico what are the three states of the psychological philosophical cultural historical scientific evolution of humanity of human civilizations are three the first state and the fictitious state and the state precisely that clearly recalls the passage from the primitive barbaric age from the age of bestiality to the age of civilization and human community but this first era this first state is a state still governed by magic from superstitions in fact it is also called the theological state the divine dominates the interpretation of the natural of wine dominates the interpretation of reality the second state instead the state of abstract metaphysical philosophy in fact it is called precisely the abstract metaphysical state civilizations abandon superstition magic and elaborate philosophies philosophical systems of a rational metaphysical nature in the current connected to metaphysics we speak of the great religious philosophical beliefs Platonism to understand but in this it could also obviously still include idealism and leghismo are abstract concepts that are in fact used to interpret reality the third state of evolution therefore human of the history of humanity of civilization and the scientific state precisely or even your positive state and the state in which science obviously triumphs where the rational metaphysical extractions leave space for the experimental scientific method to the naive question on why on the meaning of the world and of the heart and nature follows instead the question how nature works how phenomena work and therefore investigating nature based on its own functioning we can where to govern and dominate the whys follow the how this is the phase precisely the triumph of science experimental science laboratory science and it becomes the positive state therefore it is the human scientific revolution its maximum power and therefore there is a positive attitude towards the nature of the world because it is an attitude the progress of trust in the choices of trust in human rationality at this moment no man and ready ready for an evolutionary passage of well-being of progress this philosophy therefore positive sofia must obviously put in the attic send to the attic the philosophies of a metaphysical nature are classified by count the sciences the sciences are classified starting precisely from mathematics we pass by complexity therefore increasing from mathematics we pass to astronomy to physics chemistry biology until reaching sociology which deals with the substance of the most complex nature that is the human organization of human civilizations of the organization precisely human social whether agricultural or urban whether belonging to the theological era whether belonging to the positive era this must do sociology the most complex phenomenon to study with the human society of its evolution to be able to guarantee to man to his human evolution the maximum well-being sociology is divided into statics and dynamics the static one seeks and laws of equilibrium of the human society the dynamic one seeks of transformation ever comte the triumph of positivism will be industrialism will therefore be the triumph of the industrial society in which philosophy will be abandoned circumci others a bit of the sciences even politics will be suffered by the economy in this case count the singer an efficient technical industrial society in which everything like a gear must work like a point a clock with a human body and to the old concept therefore of god replaced of great being badgreat being the whole humanity present past future that in an evolution always leads to an improvement to a progress and the same com considers the singer the prof of this great great great harvest of so great be nice of this progress