Auguste Comte (1798-1857) is the initiator of sociology and scientific ethics. He founded the Religion of Humanity, a non-theistic religion. He invented altruism and advocated separation of the spiritual and the temporal.

When we review the intellectual history of the 19th century in panorama, we cannot help but be struck by the enormous profusion of ideologies that century managed to produce: Liberalism, Conservatism, Marxism, Darwinism, Positivism, and Romanticism ...