What historical events convinced Auguste Comte that society needed to be guided by thinkers who understood social laws? A. The A
merican Civil War and the battle over slavery B. The age of exploration and the expansion of European powers into Africa C. Globalization, and the rise of international trade and commerce D. The French Revolution and the instability that followed it
The correct answer is letter <em>D. The French Revolution and the instability that followed it.</em>
Explanation:
The French Revolution was a social and political conflict that teared down France and ended with the putsch of Napoleon Bonaparte at the end of XVIII century. As a consequence, Auguste Comte, a French philosopher who established the basis of positivism. This results from the epistemology that he created and extends to Europe in the second half of XIX century. The need to study scientifically the human being was born due to the stitches of French Revolution, which forced to see society and individuals as objects.
Comte as well introduced the term of "sociology" which defines that society needs to be guided by thinkers who understand social laws.
Even if, as Berlin illustrates in a companion table, 100 percent of the African Americans living in the North were free in 1860 (compared to only 6.2 percent in the South), it still is a puzzle to figure out why the majority lived below the Mason-Dixon Line.
For ten days in June 1840, abolitionists from both sides of the Atlantic met together at the World Antislavery Convention in Freemason's Hall in London, England. ... The treatment of Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the convention led them to begin their own movement—for women's rights.
