3 résultats pour "positivism"

• Comte, Isidore-Auguste-Marie-François-Xavier

  1 Life Auguste Comte was born in Montpellier, France. He attended the École Polytechnique, from which he was expelled in 1816, for political reasons. Comte's main concern throughout his life was resolving the political, social and moral problems caused by the French Revolution. To that end, he embarked upon an encyclopedic work, which he first conceived under the inspiration of Henri de Saint-Simon , for whom he worked as secretary from 1817 to 1824. At that time, he proposed several pla...

• Bobbio, Norberto

  (A Theory of Legal System) (1958 ), Bobbio contended that the definition of law, as well as the distinction of law from other normative phenomena such as morals and customs, is possible only if the legal system is taken into consideration. There are no special features belonging to all legal rules and only to legal rules. In fact, it is the legal system as a whole that has identifying features such as effectiveness or coerciveness. A rule is legal because it belongs to a legal system; a system...

• LOGICAL POSITIVISM