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Sociology emerged in the nineteenth century, with the idea of a secular morality from what thinker?

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Auguste Comte

He was a French philosopher who founded the scientific study of society. He believed in positivism, which is the idea that only scientific truth is the real truth. Auguste Comte devised a system of societal reform and advanced the study of sociology


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