Science of Man & Human Professions (Vol. 1)

This book is available in French only.

Here, the author paints a panorama of the sciences and professions concerned with the human being. With regard to the sciences, he shows how the social sciences, often considered “soft”, are not so by vocation. It is not its object that determines the type of a science, but the way in which it apprehends it.

All sciences begin with this “soft” phase. In every field, the sciences that describe the observable — Type II — precede the sciences that take it apart — Type III. All disciplines, physics, chemistry, biology and others, have passed through this stage before reaching Type III, which characterises them, at maturity, as sciences in the full sense of the term.

For a long time, it was believed that the social sciences were bound to remain soft. Wrongly so. This phase is necessary, but transitional. The sciences of the human being, following the same evolution as the others, are about to undergo the same mutation. What had been taken for a limit was only a stage. Adrien Morel announces the change in status of these disciplines which, by becoming “human sciences”, will finally gain access to Type III and become true sciences.

Whether you are a parent, student, curious reader, or practising one of these professions — psychologist, educator, doctor, teacher, marketer, priest or sociologist, economist or historian, philosopher or politician, HR manager or social worker — you are concerned by this mutation. Type III human sciences will change the way you think and, by moving it from relativism to relativity, will help civilization progress.