The Solutions Seminar
By Jay Snelson
The Solutions
Jay Snelson created more that The V-50 Lectures. Like Jung broke away from Freud, Jay broke away from Galambos to start his own school.
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 jigsaw puzzle pieces to give people an extremely clear view of the structure of society. These puzzle-piece definitions are what is called a “rationalist” approach to science, and it gives us — or seems to give us — 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, he emphasized an 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 second of those.
Here Is Session 1-A of the Solutions Seminar
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There are No Solutions in Politics
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