Who is the The father of positivism?

The doctrine was developed in the mid-____ Century.

Comte saw the scientific method as replacing metaphysics in the history of thought and Philosophy of Science.

The term "positive" in the epistemological sense indicates a "_________" or objective approach to the study of humanity that shares much in common with methods employed in the natural sciences.

Positive contrasted with "normative", which is indicative of how things should or ought to be.

(Where everything is referenced to God, and the divine will subsume human rights)

(The post-Enlightenment humanist period, where the universal rights of humanity are most important)

(The final scientific stage, where individual rights are more important than the rule of any one person)