Sic Itur Ad Astra

<p>Book one of four of Andrew J. Galambos' course V-50 and book one of fifteen for the entire set of <em>SIC ITUR AD ASTRA</em><em> </em>(This is the Way to the Stars).</p><p>This first volume of V-50 subtitled V-50: The Problem consists of sessions one through eight of V-50 in which Professor Galambos introduces:</p><p>–the purpose and scope of the course and the crisis facing mankind</p><p>–the requirement for absolute standards of rightness in both physics and the new science of volition</p><p>–absolute vs. relative rightness</p><p>–reasons why the success in physics has never been applied to volition</p><p>–the scientific method and its application to volitional science</p><p>–why all societies in history have failed and why they cannot survive without additional knowledge</p><p>–the nature and durability of a rational and moral society</p><p>–the integration of the physical sciences and how freedom is a direct derivative of this integration</p><p>–the free market as the true democracy</p><p>–the true meaning of monopoly and its popular misconception</p><p>–what the American Revolution really was and was not</p><p>–the disconnect between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution</p><p>–the false alternative of majority rule</p><p>–the only way out of the current mess we face</p><p>–hundreds of other topics both important and urgent to the survival of our species.</p>