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Jay Stuart Snelson 1936-2011 Principles of Human Action February 26th, 1995 Long Beach Memorial Medical Center Van Dyke Theater Lecture Number One https://soundcloud.com/libertydotme/the-lectures-of-jay-stuart-snelson-session-1 Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Did all of you answer all the questions? How many of you got all of them correct, a show of hands? Very good. I am really impressed. If you haven’t guessed already, my name is Jay Snelson and I am truly delighted that you have joined us. Before this particular session this morning is completed, I hope you will be delighted that you have joined us at this presentation. One...

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Principles of Human Action February 26th, 1995 Lecture Number Two https://soundcloud.com/libertydotme/the-lectures-of-jay-stuart-snelson-session-2 As we begin lecture two you should keep this in mind about the ideological immune system. Again, and I can’t overstress this, everyone has one. Let’s look again at how it operates. Your ideological immune system rejects your acceptance of any new basic ideas that would overturn any of your old basic ideas. You will find that most adults never suppress or hold back their ideological immune system. The result is they are fully protected 24 hours a day from new ideas, and especially they are protected from...

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Principles of Human Action February 26th, 1995 Lecture Number Three https://soundcloud.com/libertydotme/the-lectures-of-jay-stuart-snelson-session-3 Ladies and gentlemen, we’ll continue now with lecture three. Earlier I asked you to identify the primary cause of human failure. What failure, you might ask? Well, you name it. The cause of the failure to build peace in the world, or to build peace in your own home, the cause of the failure to build prosperity in the world, or to build prosperity in your own home. And so, the failure of the individual, the primary human failure, is the failure of the individual to apply science...

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Human Actions Principles February 26th, 1995 Lecture Number Four https://soundcloud.com/libertydotme/the-lectures-of-jay-stuart-snelson-session-4 We’re continuing with a discussion of the most important subject of study there is, namely, understanding the causes of things. I hope you will come to the realization that it is also the most exciting subject and the most challenging subject. For our human race, in the beginning, the causes of everything were a great mystery. Why the great mystery? Because the true cause of virtually everything is hidden from view, as I have said, and will continue to say. I gave you this quotation, “Things do not come...

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Human Action Principles February 26th, 1995 Lecture Number Five https://soundcloud.com/libertydotme/the-lectures-of-jay-stuart-snelson-session-5 Ladies and gentlemen, this will be a good test of your stamina. It is not easy to sit through an entire day at a seminar in a lecture. The only thing I can say is that if you’re able to maintain your concentration, you will get a lot of value out of this session, more value than you’ll get if you kind of fade away. And, at any time, you are more than welcome, encouraged, if you get a little groggy or whatever, to go outside and take a...

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Human Action Principles March 5th, 1995 Lecture Number Six https://soundcloud.com/libertydotme/the-lecture-of-jay-stewart-snelson-session-6-cause-and-effect Welcome to the continuation of Principles of Human Action. This seminar is designed to give you a maximum understanding of causality, causation, cause and effect, different ways of saying the same thing. So, when I say causality that’s shortcut for cause and effect. We’re going to give you a maximum understanding of causality with a minimum investment of your time. Now, with this promise in mind, I’m going to take about five minutes to discuss the dominant social issues in the western world during the past 500 years. I’m...

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Human Action Principles Van Dyke Theater, Long Beach Lecture Number Seven and Eight https://soundcloud.com/libertydotme/the-lecture-of-jay-stewart-snelson-session-7-problem-solving Ladies and gentlemen, I cannot overemphasize the importance of Einstein’s advice on problem solving; “the formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution.” This is not an overstatement. A penetrating formulation of a difficult problem is an integral part of the solution. Problem solving and solution building are one subject. Without problems, there are no solutions to build. In our colleges they are missing another crucial subject. It could be problem solving and solution building 1A and then you have 1B and...

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Human Action Principles March 5th, 1995 Lecture Number Nine https://soundcloud.com/libertydotme/the-lectures-of-jay-stuart-snelson-session-9-free-market-vs-interventionism I will begin this session with a question I posed earlier: How can we build a science on the qualitative analysis of doctrines? I will answer this question in part with a second question, namely, how can we differentiate between a high-quality doctrine versus a low-quality doctrine? Are all doctrines of equal quality, or are there some doctrines that are of higher quality than others? How can we make such a differentiation? How can such a differentiation ever be more than, let’s say, A’s opinion versus B’s opinion? If...

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Human Action Principles March 5th, 1995 Lecture Number Ten https://soundcloud.com/libertydotme/the-lectures-of-jay-stuart-snelson-session-10-division-of-labor-free-trade-is-freedom I will begin this session by asking two of the most crucial questions of our time. These questions, however, without explanation, sound more innocuous than they sound crucial or critical – which they are. Question one: How can we determine what is a fair price for any product or service? And question two: How can we set the price for any product or service? I will show you that for each of these questions, there is a progressive answer and a regressive answer. If the regressive answer becomes the...

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Human Action Principles March 5th, 1995 Lecture Number Eleven https://soundcloud.com/libertydotme/the-lectures-of-jay-stuart-snelson-session-11-unfettered-free-trade-will-end-war1 Ladies and gentlemen, this entire session will be on two principle topics. The first is the single most destructive idea in the history of human thought, and the second is a simplex means for the obsolescence of war. Now if we can handle both of those in a single session, I’ll assume you’ve got your time’s worth. Is that fair enough? Have you got your time’s worth if we can bring an end to war and explain how to do it? Because it took the lectures leading up to...

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Human Action Principles

Lecture #1, The Ideological Immune System Jun 8, 2017

Lecture #2, Understanding Causality Jun 7, 2017

Lecture #3, The Principle of Prosperity Jun 6, 2017

Lecture #4, Optimization Theory Jun 5, 2017

Lecture #5, The Triumph of the Principle of Prosperity Jun 4, 2017

Lecture #6, Cause and Effect Jun 3, 2017

Lecture #7 & 8, Problem Solving Jun 3, 2017

Lecture #9, Doctrines and Free Trade Jun 2, 2017

Lecture #10, Free Market vs. Interventionism Jun 1, 2017

Lecture #11, Division of Labor + Free Trade is Freedom May 31, 2017