Auguste Comte was the first person to propose that the scientific method could be applied to the study of social life. Auguste Comte is the originator of positivism which is a philosophical and political undertaking which appreciated a very wide diffusion in the second half of the nineteenth century. It goes under into an practically complete oblivion throughout the twentieth when it was concealed by neopositivism. Comte's choice to improvement sequentially a philosophy of mathematics, a viewpoint of physics, a viewpoint of chemistry and a viewpoint of biology, marks him the first philosopher of science in the modern wisdom and his continuous courtesy to the social aspect of science echoes in many respects with present facts of view. His political philosophy, on the other hand is even less known because it varies considerably from the classical political philosophy we have hereditary.
