• Purpose and scope of the course
• Identification of the crises confronting us
• The alternatives for civilization and the consequences to be expected
• The inadequacy of present techniques to cope with the crises
• The new approach to freedom
• The first few fundamental definitions and the importance of semantic precision in effective communication
• Identification of the path to be taken to achieve genuine solutions to problems
• Relationship of the Institute and this course to these problems and their solutions

• The requirement for absolute standards of rightness
• Examples of relative and absolute rightness
• The success in achieving absolute standards in the physical sciences and the failure to do so in the "social sciences"
• Identification of absolute rightness in the physical sciences
• The scientific method and its application to physical science

• Identification of absolute rightness in the physical sciences (cont’d).
• Reason for failure, thus far, to extend absolute rightness to the social domain
• How to overcome this successfully
• The establishment of a new science of volition
• Its relationship to the other (first two) sciences
• The two basic postulates
• Examples and applications

Part A: The historical basis of society

• Why all societies in history have failed to survive
• The common basis of their destruction
• Why they cannot survive without additional knowledge

 Part B: The natural basis of society

• The nature of a moral and rational society
• The durability of such a society
• Derivation of its basic characteristic and implications from the basic definitions and postulates
• Further important definitions

• The integration of the physical sciences
• The significance and content of this achievement
• How the beginning of freedom arose as a direct derivative of this integration
• How the little freedom that developed helped to accelerate the tempo of science
• The reciprocal connection between science and freedom

• Democracy—true and false meanings of the term
• Political and economic significance of these concepts
• The nature of the free market
• Significance of the free market
• Operation of the free market
• Why it is not necessary to have price controls
• Ditto, subsidies, tariffs, regulations, etc.
• The monopoly
• Why it is not necessary to regulate monopoly by any man-made laws
• Demonstration and detailed illustration that no economic monopoly can harm any individual in a truly free market