Legea celor trei stări în filosofia lui Auguste Comte

The volume The law of the three states in the philosophy of Auguste Comte (La lois des trois étates dans la philosophie d'Auguste Comte) appeared in 1928 in Paris, the Félix Alcan Bookstore. This work is the complementary doctoral thesis submitted by the philosopher Mihai Uţă (1902-1964) at the University of Strasbourg, which awarded him the title of Doctor of Philosophy with the mention "honorable". Auguste Comte admits the positivism of D'Alembert and the Encyclopaedists and the empiricism of Condillac continued by Cabanis and Destut de Tracy in the form of general ideology. Auguste Comte's philosophy has as its starting point the elimination of all metaphysics. Before beginning the elaboration of positive philosophy, Comte clears the ground of any theological or metaphysical remains. The Law of Three States is the only one that can do this. The essence of this law consists in proclaiming the incompatibility of the coexistence of the three ways of thinking. Theology, metaphysics and science are three distinct degrees of explaining the world, they follow each other but do not coexist. Positivist philosophy is a rational construction that, instead of descending from metaphysics to science, rises from metaphysics to science, closely following the indications of experience. In Romanian philosophy, Mihai Uţă belongs to the positivist-naturalist current, which had exponents such as: T. Maiorescu, V. Conta, P. P. Negulescu, M. Djuvara and Al. Claudian.