Auguste Comte was a 19th century French philosopher who developed the idea of the three stages of human thought: the theological stage, the metaphysical stage, and the positive stage. He argued that societies and human knowledge progress through these stages according to natural law. The theological stage explains phenomena through supernatural causes, the metaphysical stage replaces supernatural agents with abstract forces, and the positive stage recognizes the impossibility of absolute truth and focuses on discovering the actual laws of phenomena through observation and reasoning.

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2. About the author. . .
August Comte is a 19th century French philosopher.
Comte was born on 17 January 1798-1857. The real
nama of the Comte is Isidore Marie Auguste Comte, it
comes from a Catholic aristocratic family. He studied
at Ecole Polytechnique and majored in education in
Montpellier. Comte is also a student and secretary of
Saint Simon who started the positivism discussion.

3. In the Cours de philosophy Positive, Comte explains how
societies evolve in accordance with natural law. The
three stages discussed here, The Theological, The
Metaphysical, and
The Scientific or Positive, he argues, progress
according to a law of social development. Furthermore,
he advocates a historical method of study for social
science based on empirical methods.

4. In oerder to explain properly the true nature and
peculiar character of the Positive Philosophie, it is
indispensable that we should first take a brief survey
of the progressive growth of the human mind, viewed
as a whole; for no idea can be properly understood
apart from its history.

5. I believe that I have discovered a great fundamental
Law, to which the mind is subjected by an invariable
necessity. This Law consists in the fact that each of our
principal conceptions, each branch of our knowledge,
passes in succession through three different theoretical
states: the Theological of fictitious state,
the Metaphysical or abstract state, and the Scientific of
positive state. In other words, the human mind by it
very nature makes use successively in each of its
researches of three methods of philosophizing, whose
characters are essentially different, and even radically
opposed to each other.

6. The law of three stage is an idea
developed by Auguste Comte in
his work The Course in
Philosophie Positive that is :
1. The Theological Stage
2. The Metaphysical Stage
3. The Scientific or Positive

7. The level of human thought that all things in the world
have a soul and that is caused by a power that is above
humans mind directs its researches mainly toward the
inner nature of beings, and toward the first and final
causes of all the phenomena which it observes-in a
word, toward absolute knowledge.
Hindu people do ritual worship of the sun God at the Chhath
Festival at Gannga River, Kolkota, India.

8. This stage which is in reality only a simple
general modification of the first state, the
supernatural agents are replaced by abstract
forces, real entities or personified abstractions,
inherent in the different beings of the world.
The local population of Bali believes that a large tree is given in cloth, the aim
is to honor the guards or the contents of the tree, they believe in the tree there
are guards or their contents, so they respect by giving Offerings on the tree.

9. At stage finally, the positive stage, the human mind,
recognizing the impossibility of obtaining absolute
truth, gives up the search after the origin and
destination of the universe and a knowladge of the
final causes of phenomena. It only endeavos now to
discover, by a well-combined use of reasoning and
observation, the actual laws of phenomena-that is to
say, their in variable relations of succession and
likeness.
Example : Can predict the weather, the purpose is to
obtain information about changes in the
future, which will affect the implementation
of the policy and its consequences.