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The Science of Volition – The basic course of the volitional sciences developed by A. J. Galambos; V-50 provides an overview of the problems that destabilize human civilization, and develops the general specifications for a solution to those problems.
19 sessions divided into 4 modules, in audio-video format.

prerequisites: Curiosity, rationality, intellectual honesty, acceptance of the FEI Online Course Subscription Agreement (“the Subscription Agreement”), completion of the enrollment form, payment of the Module 1 tuition, and final approval of your enrollment by FEI. (See Subscription Agreement paragraph 4.2)

Session 1 – Introduction

  • Purpose and scope of the course
  • Identification of the crises confronting us
  • The alternatives for civilization and the consequences to be expected
  • The inadequacy of present techniques to cope with the crises
  • The new approach to freedom
  • The first few fundamental definitions and the importance of semantic precision in effective communication
  • Identification of the path to be taken to achieve genuine solutions to problems
  • Relationship of the Institute and this course to these problems and their solutions

Session 2 – How do you know you are right?

  • The requirement for absolute standards of rightness
  • Examples of relative and absolute rightness
  • The success in achieving absolute standards in the physical sciences and the failure to do so in the “social sciences”
  • Identification of absolute rightness in the physical sciences
  • The scientific method and its application to physical science

Session 3 – The third science

  • Identification of absolute rightness in the physical sciences (cont’d).
  • Reason for failure, thus far, to extend absolute rightness to the social domain
  • How to overcome this successfully
  • The establishment of a new science of volition
  • Its relationship to the other (first two) sciences
  • The two basic postulates
  • Examples and applications

Tuition for V-50DD Module 1 is payable in advance in the amount of US$100.00.

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guarantee: If, after hearing every session of any module of Course V-50DD in its entirety, you do not agree that the course content in that module was worth your tuition, FEI will refund your tuition for that module in full, subject to the additional terms of the V-50DD Guarantee.

 

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