This book contains the basic definitions and postulates of Professor Andrew J. Galambos' (1924-1997) Volitional Science. The professor's work involves using the rigors of the scientific method and the principles of physics to understand human volition.
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As Nazi Germany brought horrifying war to Europe, a teenaged Andrew Galambos reacted with singular sensitivity, particularly to the atrocities, murders and other crimes committed against the Jews, some of whom were relatives in his native Hungary. On 1942 December 7, the first anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, he enlisted. There in Europe, he saw the bloody rubble of what was once a great continent. There too, he learned of the deaths of his aunts, uncles and cousins in what would soon be named the Holocaust. There he resolved, "Never again!" As he said, "Either the Hitlers have to go, or civilization will surely go." Returning to New York City, he completed his education in physics and mathematics, and secured positions in academia, teaching those subjects at university level, and in industry, making major contributions to the rocket industry. Frustrated by the incompetence and injustice he saw everywhere he turned, and ever mindful of the conflagration the world had just endured, he began to construct a solution. In 1961, he founded The Free Enterprise Institute, his private, profit-seeking school through which he began to lecture. In over 100 courses, he described and designed a new world, one in which justice, freedom and prosperity will triumph.
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From Chapter 5: "A Progressive idea is one whose result must produce progress. A Progressive man is one who produces Progressive ideas and whose actions are consistent with his ideas. Therefore, a Progressive man can add knowledge, culture, and voluntary associations (primary property building), or he can add to material comfort (secondary property building). It is through achieving superior means of protecting property from plunder that man develops the incentive to create, to produce, and to expand his property. This brings out the best in man and he moves forward - Progresses."
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Introduction,
By Stephen Clarke-Willson (Redmond, WA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Thrust For Freedom : An Introduction to Volitional Science (Volitional Science Library) (Paperback)
I've found this book to be a good introduction to Galambos' ideas about free enterprise and capitalism as the alternative to the coercive state. He starts with an expanded definition of property that includes intellectual property and then derives a framework for society based on contractual relationships between property owners. It's seems counterintuitive at first but the more you think about his concepts, the more persuasive his ideas become and the result is a "turning around", or revolution, in the way you view society and government. Galambos taught a series of courses verbally and most of the record of his ideas is on audio tape or transcriptions of audio tapes and not generally available; this book contains many of his ideas written in his own concise style and is much more representitive of his logical approach to society's problems than the transcriptions, which tend to ramble by comparison. The book, at a hundred pages, is a relatively easy read, and a good introduction to what Galambos calls "Volitional Science". The only reason I didn't give this book five stars is that additional material is interleaved from some of the transcriptions, and while the editor did a fine job of choosing related excerpts from other material by Galambos, the overall flow is weakened because the audio material is simply not as compelling as the material Galambos wrote directly.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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***** 5 Stars is not enough *****,
By Eugene M. Nasierowski "Director of All Thoughts" (United States of America) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Thrust For Freedom : An Introduction to Volitional Science (Volitional Science Library) (Paperback)
Who should purchase this book?Well, one would think that after thousands of years someone must have exerted their focus in life to pursuit of the kind of society that is durable and stable. I do not mean perfect or ideal. Those are impossible solutions. Noone is perfect and nothing is ideal. Mr. Galambos had devoted a great portion of his life to this pursuit. Thrust for Freedom is a brief synopsis of the durable and stable societal structure that many of us only suspect is possible, but do not know how to achieve. It's called Freedom and Mr. Andrew J. Galambos has provided the Thrust to achieve it. The question is rather asked: Who should NOT purchase this book?
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Concise and Insightful,
By Stephen Clarke-Willson (Redmond, WA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Thrust For Freedom : An Introduction to Volitional Science (Volitional Science Library) (Paperback)
This book finally gets down in a convenient, concise and accessible format the key ideas that Andrew J. Galambos first developed 35 years ago in Southern California. If you call yourself a Libertarian, then this is the book for you, as you'll see where many of the current ideas in Libertarianism originally came from, but without the distortions that have been introduced over the years. Galambos explains how human rights and property rights need not be in conflict with the proper understanding of what property is. I highly recommend this book. The only problem is on the very last page where some kind of feeble attempt at marketing a larger work, Sic Itur Ad Astra, was undertaken in a very awkward way. Personally, I find that I can open to any page (except the last one!) and find something inspiring.
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