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Tomorrow's Science Today
Ending 400 years of Natural Science Without the Restraint of Moral Science
Consider the following: the historic failure of not discovering and developing Moral Science, in a world where Natural Science and Material Technology have stolen-the-show, leaves humankind with tragically flawed civilizations and discontents!
If there is any truth to this claim; then, might it make sense to shout "wake up world?" Others in the past have shouted "wake up world" with their half-smart, pre-scientific, highly destructive ideologies ending in war. Armed with Moral Science the call to "wake up world" now carries new meaning and new hope!
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Somewhere in the Russian Countryside of 1992 Professor Sergei Potemko Asks: "Is Moral Science Possible?"
Professor Leon Pomeroy responds: " Yes. Of Course and remember the asymmetric evolution of natural science, without the co-evolution of moral science, remains a "doomsday machine" of sorts. Our new Scientific Paradigms Clear a Path Beyond Good and Evil for the first time in all of recorded history... "Remember also that Morals are Normative Values. We now have a science of value phenomena (habitual-evaluative-habits that come alive within us) and we can get to a culture-free moral science and moral education using it. We call this new science Axiological Science of values and morals axiological science... "Then too, when we integrate our new axiological science with the world's old natural science (i.e., monopolar science) we have what I have come to call Multipolar Science; which is Tomorrow's Science Today ! "
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Professor Leon Pomeroy, With Faculty and Students, on the Steps of Leningrad University, 1992
Many years later, Dr. Leon Pomeroy accumulated the tests and measures needed to systematically validate the revolutionary New Paradigms of Axiological Science and its foremost applications of axiological psychology and axiometrics. This advance in science remains a model for all the social sciences
This revolution in science is based on research summarized under the mildly misleading title of:
"The New Science of Axiological Psychology " (Published by Rodopi Press, Amsterdam and New York, 2005)
EXTRAPOLATING and GENERALIZING ON THE IMPLICATIONS OF EMERGING AXIOLOGICAL SCIENCE, IN TURN GIVING RISE TO "MULTIPOLAR SCIENCE," THE SCIENCE OF TOMORROW
This Book, summarizing many years of research, has profound Implications beyond psychology. The research findings summarized in the pages of this book point to a paradigm shift destined to impact all the social sciences and humanity the world over. This sweeping assertion rests on the fact that a science of values and morals gets at the very essence of human behavior. Unfortunately the counter-intuitive and controversial nature of our research findings means it will take more than a generation to comprehend and apply. However, developments in the opening decades of the 21st century may spark a sufficient sense of urgency to speed up this process. In any case our research paves the way for an inevitable clash of paradigms, and intensive debate, in the social sciences and beyond. The historic inevitability of all this will, in the end, give future generations renewed hope for the future.
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Beyond Good and Evil !
Welcome
to the world of Multipolar Science embodying the new paradigms of axiological science and its foremost applications of axiological psychology and axiometrics.
Research reporting the discovery of a NEW SCIENCE, a SECOND SCIENCE, of values in a world of facts; where facts have been studied with natural science for four hundred years without a supporting science of values and morals. This asymmetric evolution of Galileo's "old material science," without our moral science (i.e., axiological science), has left humanity with tragically flawed civilizations and societies in the grips of run-away natural science and technology without moral science checks and balances.
Our new field of scientific inquiry "rights" this "wrong" while supporting "old science" against a rising tide of criticism and cynicism among great numbers of people the world over. In fact science as we know it is loosing its luster and becoming the poster-boy for Western materialism and decadence triggering in the minds of some acts of inspired domestic and foreign terrorism.
Our new science, destined to save the old science from itself, will support the following disciplines and fields of inquiry as well:
Critical Thinking, Moral Education, Preventive Psychology, Preventive Medicine, the Social Sciences, Law, Governance, Economics, and Financial Engineering...The scale, range, and scope of values research derives from the fact that we are prisoner's of our values. They are also beyond the range of Historic Natural Science (Monopolar Science) and well within range of an integrated axiological science and natural science; or, what we call Multipolar Science!
INFORMATIVE LINKS Measuring Value-Vision With the Basic Metric of Axiometrics or Valuemetrics Self Value-Vision Test for Critical Thinking, Identity and Moral Reasoning World Value-Vision Test for Critical Thinking , Identity and Moral Reasoning Introducing Axiological Science Introducing Axiological Psychology Introducing Multipolar Science vs. Monopolar Science
The Russian Lectures
By Leon Pomeroy, Ph.D. Concerning "A New Scientific Understanding of Values in a World of Facts" and
...the Separate Realities of Laws of Nature vs. Laws of Human Nature; Requiring Two Systems of Science Beyond the 400 Year Old One We Now Have ! ...and What Lies Behind the Laws of Human Nature? Answer: "The Moral Law Within" ...and What Lies Behind the "The Moral Law?" Answer: Emergent Persistent Uniformities or "Axiological Laws" Given by the Selective Pressures of Biosocial and Psychosocial Evolution Organizing Habitual Evaluative Habits Favoring Identity (Being and Becoming), Adaptation and Survival ! ... and What are "Axiological Laws?" Answer: They Involve the Co-Play and Counter-Play of Underlying, Core Dimensions of Valuation (Deep Evaluative States and Evaluative Traits giving rise to beliefs, emotions, and behavior) Mapped by the Hartmanian Mathematical Model (See "Structure of Value" (1973) by Robert S. Hartman, Ph.D.; systematically Validated by my work) of Organized Habitual Evaluative Habits...Coming Alive Within Us, Over Time, With Use ! These cognitive structures (Underlying, core States and Traits) dedicated to valuation exist in response to the natural laws of thermodynamics and conservation of Energy embedded in Nature and Human Nature.. Those Who Reject Our Valuecentric Scientific Approach to the study of human nature may include mainstream psychologists and social scientists resisting this paradigm shift producing a clash of paradigms, and others who prefer to believe in other agencies, forces, and phenomena Behind the Moral Law which so thoroughly defines Human Nature. Such views have been with humankind throughout history and often assume the outlines of what is called materialism, pantheism, the views of organized religions, spiritualism, mysticism, the Elan Vital or Vital Impetus of Henri Bergson, Life Force Philosophy in General, Creative Evolution, etc. These are untestable hypothetical explanations, replete with surplus meaning, linked with the phenomena of consciousness pre-dating our Work Developing Axiological Science. Axiological Science is the second science needed for the symmetrical advance of science and the understanding of human nature while securing and protecting our old natural science from a rising tide of public cynicism. Our old asymmetric natural science has given us half-smart modern medicine and many material comforts; but, it has also given us a science of war without a science of peace. Psychologists and social scientists have applied the old science to human nature with limited results. What's needed today is the application of our new science, axiological science, to all fields of social science. It is also needed to secure and protect the old natural science from a rising tide of public cynicism concerning this material science which is incapable of illuminating the nature of human nature beyond the nature of nature. Our World-View Holds the Spiritual, the Mystical, Consciousness, and Human Nature Itself, are Emergent Phenomena Rooted in the Nature of Nature Itself. However, Human Nature Intensifies Consciousness and this Requires a Second Science to Understand; a science we call Axiological Science! Understanding the Nature of Human Nature is Too Important to be Left in the Hands of the World's Religions, Humanists, Philosophers, or Materialists alone!
TOMORROW'S MULTIPOLAR SCIENCE TODAY is the integration of Moral Science (Axiological Science) and historic Monopolar (Material) Science; the foundations of which appear in the pages of:
"The New Science of Axiological Psychology"
Axiological Science is the science of values (general value-vision) and morals (normative moral vision). Axiological Psychology and Axiometrics are the foremost applications of Axiological Science. ( "axios" is Greek for "value," and "ology" is science or study of " ) Ignorance of a Science of Values and Morals is behind our tragically flawed civilization and its discontents. It is also Behind History's Asymmetric Evolution of high tech natural science against a background of static low tech moral philosophy. With the publication of "The New Science of Axiological Psychology" we enter the very different world of Multipolar Science or tomorrow's science today; but, not without resistance. This advance in scientific thought amounts to a dramatic paradigm threatening today's pre-scientific and post-modern scientific establishment with its slaves to fashion resisting advances in science. The so called "social sciences" are not sciences at all: they are pre-scientific disciplines in search of science which can only be achieved when they find grounding in axiological science. You have only to consider how psychology and psychiatry have damaged the moral fabric of society on the one hand and how economic engineering of the financial world has negatively impacted the lives of millions in the opening decade of the 21st century to appreciate this. The emerging clash of paradigms in the social sciences is destined to positively impact the lives of millions and for the better !!!! Let the paradigmatic struggle begin and let's its resolution through crisis begin; for, the clock is ticking. We can only hope for a zeitgeist to resolve this mounting ideological tension within the sciences and the sooner the better !!!
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First, a brief personal digression: it concerns my Toyota Prius I have a factory installed Sirus-XM Satellite Radio and have you experienced reception problems? I would like to hear from others who have experienced similar problems? Now, I return to a general discussion of a paradigm shift in science growing out of many years of research on my part, and destined to change the world in years to come, and for the better !
"The New Science of Axiological Psychology" by Leon Pomeroy, B.A., B.S., M.A., Ph.D., FIAPM, FAEI, FRSH
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"The New Science of Axiological Psychology" by Leon Pomeroy, B.S., B.A., M.A., Ph.D., FIAPM, FAEI, FRSHI Rodopi Press, 2005, Amsterdam, Netherlands and New York, New York This book
by Dr. Leon Pomeroy (published biologist and published licensed
clinical psychologist
practicing in Northern Virginia) might naturally attract a rather narrow audience of
psychologists and academics. Let me share why I call this a sourcebook
for value science and why it should be read by people beyond the
apparently narrow intended audience. BACKGROUND In the modern (or post-modern) world, we are used to thinking of certain facts as irrefutable, backed up by the findings of science. We even talk about the division between the "hard sciences" (mathematics, chemistry, physics, etc.) and the "soft sciences" or social sciences (psychology, sociology, history, etc.). The areas of emotions, values, behaviors, morals are all classified as "soft", difficult or impossible to measure, and therefore not subject to the same kind of scientific scrutiny or validation as the "hard sciences." We're back to the Middle Ages in these fields; in sophisticated ways we're still battling over theories and philosophies with no final standard to help us think and act clearly about the subjects discussed.
MY CONCLUSION This book is highly significant on many levels. It reaches across
several disciplines and reader audiences. Much like value science, it
cannot be pigeon-holed into one specific tightly focused genre or
reader audience, but the facts, findings and questions that it raises
will be highly engaging for people interested in values and the moral
dimensions of politics, psychological health and everyday decisions.
Besides the psychologists, philosophers, students and academics who
make up a primary audience for this book, I suggest it also to
consultants, business leaders, political leaders, and
non-profit/non-governmental organization leaders for them to read and
ponder the implications of what this important book has to say,
especially in the introduction and chapters 1-2. End
"Critiquing a Modernist Approach to Values in Postmodern Times" by Hoffman Published by the American Psychological Association
Go to History Section for a Strangely Interesting, Critical; Yet, Significantly Apologetic Book Review Revealing One Psychologist's Confusion Concerning Our Work. The Reviewer is Well Grounded in The Group-Think of Today's Mainstream Psychology. His Views Foreshadow a Clash of Paradigms to Come: Article Cited Below:
"KNOWING
PATIENTS THROUGH THEIR VALUES
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Emeritus Professor, University of Tennessee at Knoxville Go to History Section for another discussion of Axiological Psychology
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(1910 - 1973) Author of "The Structure of Value" Advancing a Testable Hypothesis, Elegant Theory and Mathematical Model of Habitual Evaluative Phenomena Inspiring biologist and psychologist Leon Pomeroy's Systematic Empirical Studies Validating Hartman's work in the field of philosophy. This in turn resulted in the development of Axiological Science and its Foremost Applications of Axiological Psychology and Axiometrics. These "paradigm shifts" in the field of psychology initiate a "clash of paradigms" that will require another generation or more of scholars, mathematicians, and scientists to sort out. In the meantime, we now have the makings of an "intellectual revolution," launched by the Pomeroy-Hartman Synthesis, the likes of which the world has never seen ! Note: For a discussion of paradigms and paradigm shifts see Thomas Kuhn's book entitled "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" (1962) where he defines "paradigm" as a major change in basic assumptions within the ruling culture of scientific elites at any given time. It refers to any substantive change in the theory and assumptions of any science at any given time. Make no mistake, our work is a major and dramatic paradigm shift now challenging the established scientific elites , their theories and assumptions !
*The Pomeroy-Hartman and Ellis-Epictetus paradigm shifts are instances of converging psychological and philosophical thought coming some hundred years after psychology's break from the "mother discipline" of philosophy (over empiricism).
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The following MANIFESTO OF JULY 9, 1955 is Worth RECALLING in the context of OUR MANIFESTO OF AUGUST, 2005 DEVELOPING AXIOLOGICAL SCIENCE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Among those signing off on the following are Bertrand Russell, Albert Einstein and Professor Pomeroy's friend and mentor, Linus Pauling.
Dr. Leon Pomeroy and Professor Linus Pauling collaborated in the founding of the world's first International Preventive Medicine Society for physicians and scientists holding doctoral degrees in their respective fields. Their organizational work in medicine some thirty years ago helped to create the grass roots movement producing needed changes in the practice of medicine. It also made possible the establishment of a preventive medicine section to the National Institutes of Health.
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Russell-Einstein Manifesto
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