Comte's first major work, the six-volume Course on Positive Philosophy (formulated 1830-1842), reformulates his home lectures and covers all natural science, which he understands as all science and all knowledge, by collapsing psychology into behavioral sciences and all social science into a new discipline he calls sociology.
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“the six-volume course on positive philosophy he formulates that between 1830 and 1842...he ends up collapsing all of social science into one super science the new discipline he founds and he calls this discipline sociology”
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