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Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte or popularly known as Auguste Comte was a French philosopher who rationalized the discipline of sociology and the doctrine of positivism. He was at times labeled as the first philosopher of science in its modern state. He established the positive philosophy in a way to fix the communal angst of the French Revolution, creating a new social doctrine grounded on the sciences. Positivism is a philosophical theory which affirms that positive knowledge is rooted on natural phenomena and their properties and relations. Positivism also states that valid knowledge is found only in this derived knowledge, a priori and a posteriori, philosophical terms of art which were largely scrutinized during the early European modern period as an ideal for precise thinking. Auguste Comte and Positivism was written by John Stuart Mill. He was born at Pentonville, London, England. He was an English philosopher, political economist, and public servant. His principal interests cover Political philosophy, ethics, economics, and inductive logic. He was mostly known for his ideologies on public and private sphere, hierarchy of pleasures in Utilitarianism, liberalism, early liberal feminism, harm principle, and Mills Methods. He was greatly influenced by notable persons in history such as Plato, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Epicurus, Aquinas, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Babbage, Berkely, Bentham, and the like. John Stuart Mill was considered to be one of the best prominent thinkers in the history of liberalism, he conferred to social theory, political theory, and political economy. He was designated as the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the 19th century. According to him, liberty rationalized the freedom of a person in contrast to limitless state and social control.