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Auguste Comte


Self Description

June 2012: "Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857), better known as Auguste Comte [oɡyst kɔ̃t], was a French philosopher. He was a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism. He may be regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Comte

Third-Party Descriptions

June 2012: "So he returned to England to pursue a degree in political science at The University of Oxford. He studied under Alan Bullock, the first biographer of Adolf Hitler, reading everything from Machiavelli to Auguste Comte and David Hume; analyses of totalitarianism; histories of dictatorships."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/23/world/gene-sharp-revolutionary/index.html

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Articles and Resources

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Jun 23, 2012 Gene Sharp: A dictator's worst nightmare

QUOTE: political scientist Gene Sharp....Now 84, the American academic has dedicated most of his life to the study of the bold, some might say reckless, idea that nonviolence -- rather than violence -- is the most effective way of overthrowing corrupt, repressive regimes.

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