In Aristotle's list of sciences, there are three value sciences: ethics, politics and poetics. In the 2500 years since, little further progress had been made in the development of value sciences before Thales.
The need has never been greater. The 500 year old World-Machine is clearly breaking down. The cities are unlivable; energy shortages and rising food prices portend the world-wide breakdown predicted in the book THE LIMITS OF GROWTH; the imbalances between have and have-not peoples and nations make Armageddon (WW III) inevitable. The eleven theorems of value sciences solve these problems in principle.
The method of all sciences is the same: make theories and test them. Thales does for value problems what Galileo did for explanatory problems; he provides a way of analyzing them, to get at the various components of a problem in a workable and testable way.
Value science and empirical religion are largely independent, except for two things: Knowledge of reincarnation and immortality changes our perspective on ecological problems and makes a steady-state system imperative. The other thing is that knowledge of the Great Way provides an over-arching perspective on war, struggle, energetic vitality of societies and the central goals of the humanist governors.
Principles | Predicament of Mankind
| Experiments in Living
| Eleven Theorems
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