System of Positive Polity
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ISBN13: 9780217056151
Paperback|9780217056151
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The nmedy to be found In the tnw picture of the inture. Affinity of Positivism (or the pro- TlOUH regimes. prevent the entire dissolution of society, the metaphysicians who advocate progress justify their opponents' alarm by their aspirations, for the practical issue of those aspirations would be the overthrow of all the institutions on which society ultimately rests. In this state of things, to calm the blind anxiety of the former whilst correcting the vague hopes of the latter, what is needed is a true picture of the future of Humanity. The priesthood of Positivism, connecting directly Sociocracy and Theocracy, will represent the intervening period of transition as inevitable in the West, and as issuing finally, in the modification and completion of the original conception of order by the substitution of a relative for an absolute order. The change is indispensable, and in no way implies a lower estimate of order; on the contrary, it consolidates and extends the power of the principle of organisation, as a consequence of duly subordinating movement to existence. This systematic conception of the human order tends to make it more complete and more stable, as more in conformity with our whole nature. Unquestionably the future will witness no return of the series, of a stagnant order, a dispersive transition, and as the latest step in such transition, an oscillation between retrogression and anarchy. What it will see is the continuous developement of a relative synthesis, suoh developement, even when the result of man's conscious efforts, consisting essentially in the perfecting the unity which constitutes the synthesis. Whilst, however, we allow for systematic modifications of order, there must be none of the abrupt changes which were fated throughout history to be the di...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217056151 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217056156 |
| Weight | 2.41 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.48 In |
| List Price | $41.29 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 756 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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