Urdu · proper noun · Mind & Knowledge
Comte
कॉम्ट
said KOHMT
also written: comte, auguste comte, kaumt, kant-e-comte
Meaning
Auguste Comte (1798-1857), French founder of positivism and sociology; representative of the empirical, science-bound thought Iqbal both learned from and faulted for excluding the spiritual.
Related words
ARABIC
Maddiyat
Materialism; the doctrine that matter is all. Iqbal held it the root malady of modern Western civilization — vast in power over things, blind to spirit and the self.
ARABIC
Ilm-e-Jadid
'Modern knowledge / new science' — the empirical sciences of the contemporary West. Iqbal urged Muslims to acquire it as their own lost inheritance, not to be dazzled or enslaved by it.
ARABIC
Falsafa
Philosophy, systematic rational inquiry into reality.