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The Handmaiden and the Handiwork

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The nineteenth-century French social philosopher, Auguste Comte (1798–1857), claimed that the human intellect had historically evolved in three different stages: a theological one, a metaphysical one, and finally, in his own time, had entered into a positive and scientific stage.1

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    Walter Benesch (Professor of Philosophy)

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Benesch, W. (1997). The Handmaiden and the Handiwork. In: An Introduction to Comparative Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230597389_7

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