ABSTRACT
The French philosopher Auguste Comte has been the most important figure in positivist social science. Comte was enthusiastic about the idea of a "religion of humanity" and went so far as to found a trinitarian cult based on the "Great Being", the "Great Fetish", and the "Great Mean or Middle". In the volume Catechisme positiviste, Comte introduced the reader to the essential contents of the "universal religion." As far as religion is concerned, Comte first of all considered its historical origins, while rejecting its abstract formulations, and ended his work by rejecting Christian and Catholic traditional solutions. Comte considered these solutions unsuitable for improving humanity, but considered positivist philosophy and the "religion of humanity". The "religion of humanity" includes the individual and the social dimensions of human existence so as to form a "unity," since both the moral and the physical part point in the same direction. Comte talked about real "synthesis" but this concept considers only the spiritual dimension.
