The Course of Positive Philosophy (Cours de Philosophie Positive) was a series of texts written by the French philosopher of science and founding sociologist, Auguste Comte, between 1830 and 1842.

The works were translated into English by Harriet Martineau and condensed to form The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte (1853).

[1][2] The first three volumes of the Course dealt chiefly with the physical sciences already in existence (mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology), whereas the latter two emphasised the inevitable coming of social science.

Then everybody should be taught modern science so that they can internalize the new scientific values in their lives.

His A General View of Positivism (published in English in 1865) would therefore set out to define, in more detail, the empirical goals of sociology.