Auguste Comte, born in Montpellier, France, on January 20, 1798, is the father of positivism and sociology. He started his academic career early and proved himself to be a very bright student; he was fourth on the entrance list of the École Polytechnique in Paris in 1814. However, his academic journey was not smooth since the École Polytechnique was closed in 1816. The turning point was Comte's meeting with Henri de Saint-Simon in 1817, as he became the secretary of Saint-Simon and engaged in politics, writing numerous published articles that attracted the public.

Comte was associated with Saint-Simon, and the two had a rather complex and challenging relationship, culminating in a split in 1824. During this period, he married Caroline Massin, who stood by him during his mental illness in 1826. This crisis interrupted his teaching of the "Course of Positive Philosophy," a set of lectures that presented Comte's ideas for a new scientific way of analyzing the world. Comte resumed his lectures in 1829, and from 1830 to 1842, he wrote the six-volume "Course of Positive Philosophy." These works laid the foundation for his positivist philosophy, which proposed that human thought progresses through theological, metaphysical, and positive stages.

The last part of his life was characterized by what he called 'complete positivism,' in which he endeavoured to build his philosophical system into a new secular religion, the 'Religion of Humanity.' This period was dominated by his association with Clotilde de Vaux, who became a kind of saint in his eyes. After she died in 1846, Comte's work gradually shifted focus toward the supremacy of the affective over the cognitive, moral, and sentimental within the positivist paradigm. The last phase of his work, the "System of Positive Polity," written between 1851 and 1854, did not receive the same welcome as the earlier works.

Comte's work was not limited to French society, but his ideas reached out to scholars from scholars of Latin America, Europe, and other parts of the world. His ideas of restructuring society on scientific principles found a lot of supporters; however, his concept of a new spiritual hierarchy independent of political power could have been more straightforward. Comte's heritage is colourful; on the one hand, he was a great scientist who strictly adhered to the principles of a scientific approach; on the other hand, he was an active social reformer. He died on September 5, 1857, in Paris and left behind a significant body of work that is still analyzed and discussed today.