Gateway to Politics and Christian Civilization: Integral Methodology (Philosophy Science and Religion) .... $49.00
Prerequisite: None this is the first foundational social science course followed in proper oder by psychology, ethics and then politics and the various othe social sciences.
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Course Description: (Two Week Online Class with Professor)
THE SOCIAL SCIENCES have long been dominated by an empirical descriptive methodology limited to observable phenomena. This has been both a strength and a weakness. Since all the social sciences are also human sciences, they should better reflect man whom they endeavor to know and to serve. This is becoming more and more apparent as avant-garde social scientists disillusioned by the limits of a strictly empirical approach increasingly include a spiritual dimension in their research.
Since man is a composite of body and soul and society is a human construct, an integral methodology uniting empirical and philosophical dimensions as well as a theological one, seems apropos. The body can be studied under a microscope but the soul cannot. For this reason, it has been ignored to the detriment of both the social sciences and of humanity whom these sciences are intended to benefit. Thus, in this course, we will study science, philosophy, and religion as diverse ways human beings have endeavored to understand themselves and the world they live in. Each has a unique contribution to make. If we continue to separate them, as we have for over a hundred years, we will be unable to benefit from the synergy that is possible when they work together.
This idea of synergy is more than a New Age fad; it is an apropos methodology for the study of the human sciences. We will explore the unique founding principle of each; their approach to man, the world, and the cosmos; their varying limits and the divergent contributions that each can make in their own domain and, when appropriately united as an integral methodology (while being cognizant of their inherent limits), the integral contribution that they can make to a new man and a new humanity.
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