Principles of Human Action February 26th, 1995 Long Beach Memorial Medical Center Van Dyke Theater Lecture Number One Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Did all of you answer all the questions? How many of you got all of them correct, a show of hands? Very good. I am really impressed. If...
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Principles of Human Action February 26th, 1995 Lecture Number Two As we begin lecture two you should keep this in mind about the ideological immune system. Again, and I can’t overstress this, everyone has one. Let’s look again at how it operates. Your ideological immune system rejects...
Principles of Human Action February 26th, 1995 Lecture Number Three Ladies and gentlemen, we’ll continue now with lecture three. Earlier I asked you to identify the primary cause of human failure. What failure, you might ask? Well, you name it. The cause of the failure to build peace in...
Human Actions Principles February 26th, 1995 Lecture Number Four We’re continuing with a discussion of the most important subject of study there is, namely, understanding the causes of things. I hope you will come to the realization that it is also the most exciting subject and the most...
Human Action Principles February 26th, 1995 Lecture Number Five Ladies and gentlemen, this will be a good test of your stamina. It is not easy to sit through an entire day at a seminar in a lecture. The only thing I can say is that if you’re able to maintain your concentration, you will...
Human Action Principles March 5th, 1995 Lecture Number Six Welcome to the continuation of Principles of Human Action. This seminar is designed to give you a maximum understanding of causality, causation, cause and effect, different ways of saying the same thing. So, when I say causality...
Human Action Principles Van Dyke Theater, Long Beach Lecture Number Seven and Eight Ladies and gentlemen, I cannot overemphasize the importance of Einstein’s advice on problem solving; “the formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution.” This is not an...
Human Action Principles March 5th, 1995 Lecture Number Nine I will begin this session with a question I posed earlier: How can we build a science on the qualitative analysis of doctrines? I will answer this question in part with a second question, namely, how can we differentiate between...
March 5th, 1995 Lecture Number Ten I will begin this session by asking two of the most crucial questions of our time. These questions, however, without explanation, sound more innocuous than they sound crucial or critical – which they are. Question one: How can we determine what is a fair...
Human Action Principles March 5th, 1995 Lecture Number Eleven Ladies and gentlemen, this entire session will be on two principle topics. The first is the single most destructive idea in the history of human thought, and the second is a simplex means for the obsolescence of war. Now if we...
Human Action Principles March 19th, 1995 Lecture Number Fourteen Ladies and gentlemen, the question I have for you is this; which is the true means to the greatest good for the greatest number? One, entrepreneurial management of the profit system, or bureaucratic management of the anti...
Human Action Principles March 26th, 1995 Lecture Number Twenty Good evening ladies and gentleman and welcome to this final session of Human Action Principles. I congratulate all of you for having the stamina and good sense to stay with us. Five weeks ago, in the first session, in the...