"Kierkegaard was interested in the development of the existent, individual, concrete human personality. Its chief Kierkegaardian stages are the esthetic, the moral, and the religious, and they form a striking contrast to Comte’s trio: the theological, the metaphysical, and the scientific. For one thing Kierkegaard’s highest stage of human existence is the religious, while Comte’s is the scientific; for another, the Kierkegaardian personality’s journey through its stages is absolutely free."
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ed. The age of analysis 20th century philosopher, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1955 p. 120-121
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Auguste Comte
1798 – 1857
französischer Mathematiker und Philosoph
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