Spencer Heath Archive

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THE LITERARY ESTATE OF

SPENCER HEATH

A Symposium

   Tentative Program of

  Readings and Discussions

 by

            Spencer Heath MacCallum and Alvin Lowi, Jr.

    The Institute For Humane Studies, Inc

        Menlo Park, California

        April 17-21, 1967

Monday Afternoon, April 17

1 – 3 pm   INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

Biographical Sketch of Spencer Heath The Spencer Heath Archives Study Introduction to Presentation

3-5      GENERAL PHILOSOPHY

Science of Science Being and Becoming Self and Not-Self The Universe as a Whole Transcendence

Tuesday Afternoon, April 18

1 – 3:30   EXPERIENCING AND KNOWING

Phenomena and Noumena

General Action Theory—Quality and Quantity of Events

Limits of Objective Experience

Waves and Particles

Consciousness and Rationality

Units, Dimensions and Numbers

Science and Technology—Rational Knowledge

Art and Emotion—Empirical Knowledge

3:30-5  ESTHETICS AND RELIGION  (PART I)

Beauty, Truth and Goodness On Why and How

On God

Wednesday Afternoon, April 19

      1-3 pm

ESTHETICS AND RELIGION  (PART II)

Christianity, Clergy, Ritual

Esthetics, Inspiration and Scientific Discovery

Freedom and Beauty

Art and Love

Dreams

3-5 pm

THE HUMAN SPECIES — DUAL NATURE

Biology of the Species

Quantum Concept of Life and Population

Man

Creature and Creator

Psychological Preeminence

Free Will and Causality

Polarity in Behavior

Physical Basis of Human Variation

Prospect for the Solitary Human Being

Evolution — A Transcending Cosmos Subjectivity, Reminiscence and Personality Purpose and Personality

Thursday Afternoon, April 20

1 – 5 pm   SOCIETY, THE CROWN OF CREATION

Tools of the Human Spirit

Property, Equality, Reciprocity

Contract, a Psychological Relationship

Self-Sovereignty and Social Power

The meaning of Freedom

Society the Ultimate in the Evolution of Organisms Society as an Energy System

Structure/Function—the Institutional Approach

Proprietary Administration

Proprietary Community

Land Ownership and the Rationale of Community Service

Profit-Seeking Government

Meaning of the Market

Accountancy, a Rational Social Technology

Democracy

Cinderella Capitalism Towards Immortality

Friday Afternoon, April 21

1 – 5      THE HUMANE STUDIES: PRELUDE AND PROSPECT

Education, Teachers and Students Inspiration and Motivation Creativity and Doing

Some Proposals

Some Prospects

GENERAL       PHILOSOPHY

Monday       3-5 pm

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* Philosophy and Science

The functioning of the philosopher

• Science and philosophy differentiated
• The cosmos and its constituents Primary postulates: Self and Not-Self
• The absolute and the relative
• Every verb must have an object
• Nature knows no zeros Licht, mere licht
• Being and becoming Process and reality
• Cosmos is not chaos Structure/function Creation

The universe as an event Continuing creation Cosmos as a continuum Evolving order as the all-in-all

* Consciousness, the primary datum of knowledge
^ Rationality, human and objective

* Only the abiding is the real
Time and change

Positive quality

* Two scales of value

Each thing in its place is best-Entropy in the universe

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EXPERIENCING     6c    KNOWING

Tuesday     1-3:30  pm

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All Life   is Experience

The   Objective   and   Subjective  Worlds

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Concerning the Two Worlds of Experience

The Scope of Objective 6c Subjective Experience

Experience is the Best Approach to a Subject

Events

The Constitution of Events

• Quantum Metaphysics Physics and Metaphysics
• All Human Experience is Emotional
• Man, the Epitome of Nature

^ Man Begins with his consciousness Rationality Thinking

Empiricism Precedes Reason Distinction Between Empiricism and Science Geometry and Reality Right and Wrong The Truth About Evil

• The Meaning of Natural Law
• “Know-How,” the Only True Knowledge Precious Knowledge is like Precious Metals Organization: the Subject Matter of Science
• Six Basic Assumptions Unerlying All Science All Science is Psychological

All Science is at Bottom Quantitative

Science and the Quantum

When a Layman Looks at Physics

The Subject and Meaning of Physics

• Physics Postulates a Cosmos of Action Functional Units of Physical Science
• The Method and Substance of Physical Science

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ESTHETICS

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RELIGION

Tuesday    3:30-5 Wednesday       1-3

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The Nexus of Objective Experience                                        3

• On how and why                                                                          411
• The spiritual world of the how             75 Flesh and spirit    210 At-one-ment                                                                 246 Desires    15 Means and ends                                                                          260
• Plaything of the mind         293 Belief in truth and beauty    332
• On beauty and goodness                                                          383
• Ecstasy                                       233 Art and religion related    289
• My religion                                                                               357
• Science is knowledge of God                                                 458

* Men can only emulate the way of God                                 372
^ Only way to honor God                                                           410

Knowledge of man and God is the same knowledge           474

Redeeming virtue in religious ritual                               381

Religion and churches                                                            374

Religion: what it does and does not teach about

society        350

In commemoration of  the Nativity                                               384

Ownership  a  derivative  of  Christ’s  reciprocity rulell2

• Christ, the poet                                                                      373
• Humanity—Christ’s message                                                   209

• Christian religion and other branches of knowledge 39 Pax Romana and a new message                                                      208
• A new message for mankind 212 Interpretations of Christian theology                                                                                    438

(Continued)

(Esthetics 5c Religion

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Well-being of populations and the Christian ethic  379

The Christian and the pagan way of life                        478

• Theology and technology of the golden rule                   380 Christian public polity                                                                                       375 Motivation of science in the Christian tradition   110
• Free will and the golden rule                                            378
• Utopias for the good life                                                   257 The concept of sin                                                                                             435
• Joy of accomplishment                                                           440
• Poetry, mother of science                                                   377 Childlike race-visions                                                                                      353 The folk dream and its fulfillment                                                               383 Spirituality                                                                                                   897

Wednesday April  19,   1967 3:00  –  5:00  p.m.

THE  HUMAN   SPECIES   –   DUAL NATURE

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The Species of Man

The Organic Life of Man

Population

The Spirit of Life

The Soma and the Psyche

The Human Organism

The Origin of a Species

Biologic Refutation of Malthus

Quantum Theory of Population

The Individual

Man – Spark from the Cosmic Wheel

Man and the Wondrous

Two Natures of Man

Man, the Creature and the Creator

Brass Tacks

Variety is the Spice of Life

Animal Man

A Creature of Singular Polarities

Beauty and the Beast

Psychological Preeminence of Man

Life is Like a Pendulum

The Unconscious and the Intellect

Necessitous and Spontaneous Creativity

Human Motivation

Creative Motivation

3orn Free

Individual Freedom

Hate and Fear

The Animal Ego

Emotion

Problem Solving

Psychic Supremacy in Evolution

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Is There Life After Death? Creative Environment

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SOCIETY

Thursday  1-5 pm

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Social symbiosis                                                                     288

Organic society                                                                       141

Society a divine manifestation                                          256

The basic social metabolism                                              1122

Recirpocal energy flow in the organic society            412

Two kinds of human relationships                                      489

Spiritual brotherhood of men                                              780

The over-all social function                                              765

Socionomy                                                                                  168

Social functioning                                                                 284

Free will                                                                                1133

Liberty the fruit of social organization                      294

Happiness                                                                                  727
The social vision (excerpt from correspondence)   230

Citadel, Market and Altar                                                 1118

To myself                                                                                  118

Man is an unusual, a strange kind of worm                    116

The market economy recapitulates nature                         521

Social versus industrial technology                                523

Natural law among men                                                             35

Right doing versus wrong doing                                          755

The riddle of the Sphinx                                                       57

Sired by the sun and out of the earth                            493

Notes on the positive side                                                 170

Self government                                                                      619

Our forefathers played with three pets                          517

Communism is a deficiency                                                 1011
Ayn Rand and the legitimate functions of gov’t   544

Democracy is concert                                                             964

No force in wind or wave                                                     277

• Property                                                                                   183
• The market doesn^ft deal with     tangible things     852
• The ancient proprietary social    pattern           191
• What is distribution?                                                          510
• Contract universalizes us                                                 1022
• Immortality of capital                                                         706
• Capital                                                                                     635
• To build for the ages                                                          775
• Henry George as literary artist                                        756
• Social potencies                                                                    178
• Rent as environmental value                                               620
• An  outdoor hotel                                                                      430
• A  jewel of opportunity                                                         1038
• Penalties                                                                                 741
• Bigness in Business       892 The practice of business and      a game of cards     530
• Unemployment                                                                           794
• Competition                                                                             752
• Surpluses                                                                                1076
• Banking                                                                                     602
• The relation between God & man    is like the market 658
• The speculator                                                                       276
• Cinderella Capitalism                                                          876
• Freedom the touchstone                                                        434
• A  Christmas message                                                                 662
• The cosmic orchestration                                                     269

THE  HUMANE  STUDIES

Friday  1-5 pm

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