Book one of three of Andrew J. Galambos' course V-50 and book one of fifteen for the entire set of SIC ITUR AD ASTRA (This is the Way to the Stars).

This first volume of V-50, subtitled V-50: The Problem, consists of sessions one through eight of V-50, in which Professor Galambos introduces:

-the purpose and scope of the course and the crisis facing mankind

-the requirement for absolute standards of rightness in both physics and the new science of volition

-absolute vs. relative rightness

-reasons why the success in physics has never been applied to volition

-the scientific method and its application to volitional science

-why all societies in history have failed and why they cannot survive without additional knowledge

-the nature and durability of a rational and moral society

-the integration of the physical sciences and how freedom is a direct derivative of this integration

-the free market as the true democracy

-the true meaning of monopoly and its popular misconception

-what the American Revolution really was and was not

-the disconnect between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution

-the false alternative of majority rule

-the only way out of the current mess we face

-hundreds of other topics both important and urgent to the survival of our species