Auguste Comte#
Summary#
Nietzsche invokes Auguste Comte as an example of French thinkers whose thought retains a distinctly Catholic and un-German character. In Beyond Good and Evil, he describes Comte’s Sociology as possessing a Roman logic of instincts, reflecting the deep attachment of Latin races to Catholicism. Nietzsche uses Comte, along with Sainte-Beuve and Renan, to illustrate how French skeptics of Celtic origin remain strangely pious compared to Northern Protestant sensibilities.