For French philosopher Auguste Comte, world history was arranged into three successive stages, theological, metaphysical and scientific, the last stage representing the advances and progress ushered in by the sciences, which he saw as a positive stage. Hence Comte's philosophy's was labeled _________.

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Auguste Comte is known as the father of positivism, a philosophical theory stating that positive knowledge is based on natural phenomena and their properties and relations as verified by the empirical sciences. This aligns with his view of history progressing through stages to a scientific one, which he saw as superior.

For French Philosopher Auguste Comte, World History Was Arranged into Three