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The problem of humanism appeared late in the development of sociology. The founders of sociology — Saint Simon and August Comte, as well as their antagonist Herbert Spencer — despite all the other differences that divided them, were so deeply impressed by the nineteenth-century achievements of the natural sciences that they had no hesitation in applying the models and methods of the natural sciences to the new field of investigation: sociology.
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Gella, A. (1986). Controversies about Humanism in Sociology. In: The Moral Sense in the Communal Significance of Life. Analecta Husserliana, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4538-8_19
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