In Defense of Common Sense ; Project A ; The Science of Christian Economy

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Cover Back Cover Title Publication Data Contents Preface In Defense of Common Sense Foreword I. What Is Common Sense? II. Successful Survival III. Potential Population-Density IV. Continuous Transformation V. Circular Action and Maximum-Minimum VI. Entropy versus Negentropy VII. The Golden Section VIII. Case Study: The U.S. Economy IX. Curvature of Physical Space-Time X. Isochronicity, Least-Action, and the Parmenides Paradox XI. On Human Mortality XII. The Individual and Society XIII. Agapē Illustrations Project A Foreword I. The Topics II. The Crucial Fact III. Leibniz's Mind IV. Plato's 'The One' V. Matter Is Not Simple VI. Reaction to a Query The Isoperimetric Theorem On the True Nature of Substance The Case of Classical Music Composition On the Natural Law and the Rights of Man VII. Self-Conscious Reasoning VIII. Is There an American (Protestant) Ideology? IX. Determinism and Matter X. What Is Change? XI. Change and No-Change XII. Self-Consciousness Again XIII. A Self-Conscious Scientific Method XIV. The Uses of Deduction XV. Religion and Creative Reason XVI. The Bankruptcy of 'Standard Theory' Max Planck, From This Standpoint XVII. On the Subject of Unity A Point of Clarification XVIII. On the Subject of Ontology, Again Illustrations The Science of Christian Economy Preface: On the 100th Anniversary of Rerum Novarum Introduction: On the Subject of the Science of Christian Economy I. The Strategic Setting II. The Genesis of Economic Science III. Imago Viva Dei IV. The Sovereign Personality V. Agapē VI. Reproduction of Man The Ontological Paradox of Social Production Land and People Capital-Intensity The Invisible Hand Private Entrepreneurship VII. 'The One and the Many' The Definition of Science Physics, Briefly A. Kepler versus Newton on Gravitation B. The Orbital Characteristics of the Asteroids C. Non-Algebraic Functions Adam Smith and Karl Marx Common Axioms Roots in Ancient Pantheism Two Historical Illustrations Marx, Smith, and Diocletian Aristotelian Follies Some Common Immoralities VIII. A World under the Rule of Law I. The Principles of Modern Statecraft: A Summary A. Literate Language and the Sovereign Republic B. A Community of Republics C. The Controversy 1. Empiricism 2. Goodness/Keplerian Negentropy 3. Smaller and Further 4. Democracy? II. Economics and Natural Law A. The Example 1. Racialism 2. Descartes and Kant B. History C. Dealing with Moscow 1. The SDI 2. The Economy 3. The Question of Peace D. Eurasia's Great Projects History The Policy for the Great Projects Appendices Appendix I: Conical versus Cylindrical Action Appendix II: The Maximum-Minimum Principle Appendix III: The Golden Section Appendix IV: Formal Deductive Systems Appendix V: How Newton Parodied Kepler's Discovery Appendix VI: The Art of Forming Hypotheses: Kepler's Harmony of the World Appendix VII: Transfinite Ordering Appendix VIII: Non-Algebraic Curves and Negative Curvature Appendix IX: The Dirichlet Principle Appendix X: Scientific Tuning: Middle C=256 Hz Appendix XI: Euler's Fallacies on the Subjects of Infinite Divisibility and Leibniz's Monads Appendix XII: 'Anthropomorphic Science' Appendix XIII: On the Subject of Christian Civilization Appendix XIV: Physics and Natural Law Notes Note to: In Defense of Common Sense Foreword Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Notes to: Project A Foreword Chapter I Chapter IV Chapter VI Chapter XVI Chapter XVII Notes to: The Science of Christian Economy Preface Introduction Chapter I Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Notes to: Appendices Appendix V Appendix XI Appendix XIV Index