Sociology. If man is to be studied otherwise than as a bodily organism, he must, according to this doctrine, be studied as he exists in society. At the other extreme from the Comtists are the Hegelians, in whose view the history of Philosophy is Philosophy. According to this school, the successive stages of systematised human thought form a philosophical unity; an organic whole has been, and is, developing and revealing itself in the long history of the philosophical evolution of intellectual humanity.
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