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Comte

(Isidore) Auguste (Marie François) . 1798--1857, French mathematician and philosopher; the founder of positivism
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MacIntyre in essence summarizes the entirety of Hayek's work on the abuse of reason when he writes that "[t]he civil servant has as his nineteenth-century counterpart and opposite the social reformer: Saint Simonians, Comtians, utilitarians, ameliorists such as Charles Booth, the early Fabian socialists.
Alasdair MacIntyre and F. A. Hayek on the abuse of reason

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