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 student of Auguste Comte , who appointed him his literary administrator.
After the schism of the positivist movement that followed Comte's death, he was recognized as the leader of those who followed Comte's doctrine. The others stuck to Émile Littré , who rejected the belief in humanity because it was inconsistent with the materialism of Comtes' early days. From 1853 Laffitte gave positivist lectures in a room on rue Monsieur le Prince, which Comte had previously lived in. He published Les Grands Types de l'humanité in 1875 and Cours de philosophie première in 1889 .
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 the sciences. It is largely due to Laffitte's instigation that a statue of Comte was erected on the Place de la Sorbonne in 1902.
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- Hugh Chisholm (Editor): Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press , 1911
- Pierre Laffitte at the online version of the Encyclopædia Britannica
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| SURNAME | Laffitte, Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1823 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Béguey , Gironde |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th January 1903 |
| Place of death | Paris |