Henri de Saint-Simon Quotes on Knowledge
Henri de Saint-Simon (1760–1825), the French aristocrat whose late writings — including the Memoir on the Science of Man (1813), Industry (1816–18, with Comte), and the posthumously published New Christianity (1825) — laid the philosophical groundwork for the positivist and socialist currents of the nineteenth century, defended the case that the reorganization of European society on a scientific basis required the parallel reorganization of knowledge itself into a unified positive science of human and natural phenomena. The framework treats the historical succession of intellectual epochs — theological, metaphysical, positive — as the underlying movement on which the Comtean positivism and the early sociology that it spawned would be built.
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“La politique est … la science de la production.”
Politics is the science of production . De L'Industrie (1816), in Saint-Simon: sa víe et ses travaux (1857), by M. G. Hubbard, pp. 156–157 -
“Syst. Indus, VI, 17, as quoted from E.Durkheim, Socialism and Saint-Simon (1958)”
True equality consists in each drawing benefits from society in exact proportion to his social outlay, that is to his real capacity, to the beneficent use he makes of his abilities. And this equality is the natural foundation of industrial society. -
“Syst. Indus, VI, 17, as quoted from E.Durkheim, Socialism and Saint-Simon (1958)”
Equality is the natural foundation of industrial society -
“In the old system Society is governed essentially by men; in the new it is governed only by principles”
Org, IV, 197, as quoted from E.Durkheim, Socialism and Saint-Simon (1958) -
“Org, IV, 197, as quoted from E.Durkheim, Socialism and Saint-Simon (1958)”
In the old system Society is governed essentially by men; in the new it is governed only by principles -
“The progress of the human mind, the revolutions which occur in the development of knowledge, give each century its special character.”
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