Clotilde of Be worth

Clotilde of Be worth , born Clotilde-Marie de Ficquelmont the April 3rd 1815, deceased in Paris the April 5th 1846, inspired with Auguste Count the “Religion of Humanity”.

Biography

Oldest daughter of a family of old nobility, sister of the officer Maximilien-Marie de Ficquelmont, follower of the Positivism, Clotilde of Be worth had been educated with the Maison of the Legion of Honor. She married in 1835 an adventurer become tax collector of Méru, Amédée de Vaux. But this last contracted debts with the play and, condemned to the bankruptcy, flees in Belgium giving up his wife.

The prohibiting Civil code with Clotilde of remarier (the divorce had not been marked), it went back food in his/her brother to Paris then profited from an apartment Rue Payenne (perhaps with the n°7). An uncle poured a pension to him which just enabled him to be placed (she dined in its brother). She wanted to launch out in the literary career and to write news for the magazines.

Clotilde of Be worth becomes acquainted with Auguste Count in the month of October 1844, during a visit at Maximilien (whose Count is the professor with polytechnic). The first letter of the philosopher with Clotilde dated April 30th, 1845 and, as of this date, it is clear that Count is passionately in love with the young woman. This one pushes back its love but accepts that they continue to correspond.

This passion develops until the death of Clotilde of Are worth, reached tuberculosis, one year later. Count recognizes in his egery his higher morals, and becomes aware of the religious dimension of the human condition. Clotilde of Be worth was indeed a convinced catholic and, if Count sees in the Catholicisme a simple stage in the evolution towards the positive Spirit (namely the “metaphysical Spirit”), he is convinced that the worship and the celebrations are essential to the blooming of positivism in the human society.

Birth of religious positivism

With died of Clotilde of Be worth (1846), Auguste Count seeks to make his mourning. Carried, like always, to theorize the events which strew its existence, he sees in the vicissitudes of his private life of the symptoms whose interpretation interests all Humanity. He seeks to reorganize his former philosophical system, the scientific positivism . According to Auguste Count, this idea would have come to him since 1845.

It describes the principles of organization which must, according to him, to found the human society.

Auguste Count develops a natural Religion thus, in order to define what it looks like a morals for the life in society : the love of the other according to him would be lived initially through the union of the sexes, expression of generosity and satisfying, likely to extend to human groups broader than the couple.

In the System of positive policy (1851-1854), Auguste Count presents his ideas on the “religion of the humanity”, which is based on three concepts:

the altruism , term which it created, which returns to the feeling of generosity and devotion not involved to others.
the order : Count considered indeed that after the French revolution, it was necessary to restore the order in the company.
the progress : in Count, this concept gets along (following the count of Saint-Simon) like the consequences for the human society of the development of the technique and industry.

Count establishes also a classification of the feelings , a liturgical Calendrier (the Sainte Clotilde each April 6th and, every four years, one day bissextile, the Journée of the holy women ). Humanity, liturgical object, are illustrated on the furnace bridges with the face of Clotilde of Are worth. In the Catechism positivist (1851), Count formalizes his religion by defining seven sacraments:

the Presentation (nomination and sponsorship)
the Admission (end of education)
the Destination (the choice of a career)
the Marriage,
the Retirement (at 63 years),
Separation, making the office of a social extreme unction,
Incorporation, three years after death.
Incorporation is the union with deaths, supposed to control the world, in the doctrines of Auguste Count, from where the expression employed by Raquel Capurro of worship of dead the .

“Religious positivism” itself practically disappeared today as a worship. There remains nevertheless a vault in Paris.

Works of Clotilde of Be worth

Thought of a flower , collection of poems
Lucie , news published in serial in the National
Willelmine , news

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