"Cours de philosophie positive. (2/6)" by Auguste Comte is a philosophical work published between 1830 and 1842. This second volume of Comte's six-part series transcribes his lectures on the history of sciences and political philosophy. The work systematically reconstructs scientific knowledge, covering mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, and sociology. Comte introduces his famous law of three stages concerning human intellectual development and develops his positivist philosophy, establishing foundational principles that would influence modern scientific thought.