Why Comte is Bullshit Again By Anthony J. Fejfar, B.A., J.D., Esq., Coif © Copyright 2009 by Anthony J. Fejfar Comte’s Positivism is irrational a logically inconsistent. Of course Comte tries to deal with this by rejecting logic, an irrational post-modern move.
On the one hand
Comte rejects metaphysics and theology, then he turns around and says we must accept relativism and a Superior Being.
Comte’s Bullshit move is crap. Why is it that you
can have authoritarian, unreflective religion and political philosophy on the one hand using relativism and then you can’t have metaphysics and theology on the other hand. If Comte really wanted relativism then he, and we should be able to talk about metaphysics and theology as a matter of relativism. For example, my Critical Thomism uses Moderate Relativism and still includes metaphysics and theology. Comte is hypocritically, setting us up for authoritarian religion and politics which are irrational. Under Comte we get Concentration Camps for Jews in Nazi Germany and death to millions of peasant farmers in Stalinist Russia. Comte should not be taught in schools.