Comte 1-33

In this reading of Comte I enjoyed how he describes the way our human intellectual activity develops. "Our intellectual activity is sufficiently excited by the mere hope of discovering the laws of phenomena, by the simple desire of verifying or disproving a theory." I think that our minds have to go through this stage of desire because it is only natural to want to know where you came from and if there are explanations out there that say they have the answer some might be willing to graspe on to it. I also think that for most people reason eventually takes hold of the mind, which allows people to release some of these theories and maybe come to their own conclusion. I also agree with his statement about having one idea in society as a whole, rather than many different ones. "As long as individual minds are not unanimously agreed upon a certain number of general ideas capable of forming a common social doctrine, we cannot disguise the fact that the nations will necessarily remain in an essentially revolutionary state." Although this idea is good, it will likely never happen because of how our minds use our reason, which is conditional to the society we live in.