Excerpt from Dynamic Sociology, Vol. 2: Or Applied Social Science as Based Upon Statical Sociology and the Less Complex Sciences
Aim of the chapter Attitude of nature toward man Man a part of natureHan an evolved product of nature Nature unconscious and non-intelligent Attitude which roan should assume toward nature:1, that of a student;2, that of a master The environment Fundamental schism between the various schools of thought The philosophy of Kant Teleological, dualistic, and genetic modes of thought Divine free-will Predestination Fatalism Necessitarianism Doctrine of depravity Optimism Canes in support of optimism Cases opposed to optimism Unconscious and non-intelligent character of the universe Intelligence a product of evolution Classification of phenomena Genetic phenomena Teleological phenomena Methods of conation The direct method of conation The indirect method of conation Classification into natural and artificial Recapitulation Tabular exhibit Statement of the argument Definitions Theorems of dynamic sociology. In the introductory chapter of this work the eminently practical character of the science of Dynamic Sociology was carefully set forth. The four chapters of the first volume preceding the last one, dealing as they did with the fundamental data upon which al! true philosophy must rest, were necessarily somewhat abstruse, and bore only an indirect relation to the main purpose of the work. The closing chapter of that volume, though fairly entering upon the field of social science, was purposely confined to the statical and passively dynamical conditions, which it was necessary to comprehend thoroughly before the more important but less understood problems of active social dynamics, or applied social science, could be intelligibly stated and logically discussed (vol. i, p.
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