... belief in God. In ancient times Theravadic Buddhism taught that the God idea was irrelevant to its aim of overcoming human suffering. The chapter mentions Auguste Comte in the early nineteenth century who founded the religion of Positivism, the religion of humanity and the full harmony of life, with its...

...Conscious of the need to explain clearly the fundamental ideas of Spencer, as a preliminary to establishing what ‘the scientists’ made of them, this chapter concentrates upon his theory of evolution. This serves in part to reveal the differences between his philosophy and that of Comte and other...

... and Justo Sierra. It explains the eclectic nature of their discourses, derived from the works of not only Spencer but also Charles Darwin, Auguste Comte and other European writers, which reached Mexico in a fragmented fashion. It concludes that, far from forming a homogeneous elite clearly committed...

... Hitlerism National Socialism Nazi Third Reich Stokes Lawrence D Arendt Hannah totalitarianism totalitarian law of the strongest Mill John Stuart might right doctrine Rousseau Jean Jacques Boulainvilliers Henri de comte de Saint Saire Luxemburg Rosa Cesbron Georges Darwin Charles Holocaust...