The Principles
Jay Snelson created much more that The V-50 Lectures. Like Jung broke away from Freud to start his own school, Jay broke away from Galambos to start his own school of freedom.
The popularity of Volitional Science was based on the short succinct definitions of the key terms of society — freedom, property, morality, justice, and so on. These definitions fit together like a jigsaw puzzle to give people an extremely clear view of the structure of society. This intellectual puzzle is called a “rationalist” approach to science, and it gives you — or seems to give you — a tremendous amount of intellectual leverage. But the problem with rationalism is that it is not how modern science is done.
The other scientific approach is called “empiricism,” and the difference between rationalism and empiricism is this: where rationalism says, the more the pieces of a paradigm fit together, the truer it is, empiricism says that no data is valid unless is has been formally vetted by the scientific method. Rationalism is a strictly logical approach, while empiricism is a strictly operational approach.
When Jay Snelson broke away from Galambos in 1979 to start his own school of freedom, he emphasized and empirical approach. In doing so he became a first-rate epistemologist, himself. The eventual result was two lecture series. First, the Principles Seminar, and second, the Solutions Seminar. Here is a sample from the first of those two.
Here is an Excerpt from Session One
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