CEVAP:

Comte summarizes his ideas about this point of view in his well-known evolution theory known as “law of the three stages”, which he developed under the influence of the studies by Saint-Simon. Accordingly, human thought and societies evolve through three basic stages:

1. a) Theological stage: In this stage, the human mind tries to explain everything through supernatural forces.
2. b) Metaphysical stage: In this stage, the human mind tries to explain all social and physical phenomena and events through abstract forces.
3. c) Positive stage: In this stage, the human mind finally tries to explain all phenomena and events scientifically (based on universal laws). According to Comte, in this stage, the human mind rejects supernatural and abstract forces due to positive sciences and tries to reveal existing relationships among observable phenomena and systematize these relationships within universal laws.