Pierre Laffitte

Pierre Laffitte ( born February 21, 1823 in Béguey, Gironde, † January 4, 1903, Paris) was a French positivist.

He lived in Paris as a mathematics teacher and became a disciple of Auguste Comte, who appointed him his literary executor.

After the schism of the Positivistenbewegung that followed Comte's death, he was recognized as the leader of those who followed the doctrine of Comte. The others stuck to Émile Littre, who rejected faith in humanity, because they is not consistent with the materialism of Comte's earlier time. Since 1853 held Laffitte positivist lectures in a room in the Rue Monsieur le Prince, had formerly inhabited the Comte. He published in 1875 Les Grands Types de l' Humanité and in 1889 Cours de philosophie première.

In 1893 he was appointed to a newly established chair at the Collège de France, which dealt with the presentation of the general history of science. It is largely due to the action of Laffitte, that in 1902 a statue of Comte was erected on the Place de la Sorbonne.

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• Hugh Chisholm (Editor): Encyclopædia Britannica ( 11th ed ). Cambridge University Press, 1911
• Pierre Laffitte in the online version of the Encyclopædia Britannica

• Philosopher (19th Century )
• Philosopher ( 20th century)
• Frenchman
• Born in 1823
• Died in 1903
• Man