Society: Progress and Force (Criteria and First Principles)

The present book, being a sequel to «Dialectics of Force: Ontobia», is dedicated to the topics of progress and force of society — topics which may appear trivial at first sight; a mountain of literature has been written on them. The author, however, having presented conscientiously the views on progress and force of all important thinkers of the past and the present, chose to follow a different way and formulated the criterion of progress based on entirely different scientific paradigms. Moreover, he dared to formulate the two Principles of social development, which are akin in their fundamental nature to the First and Second laws of thermodynamics. The result is a book that is very complex in content, yet the journalistic style of presentation used throughout most of the work makes it accessible even to those who never read Hegel. The book is intended for instructors and students of philosophy and social sciences, and also for all those who are interest in problems of man and mankind.