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Peace Science Primer (PSP)

Covers: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1264

Dedications Gallery: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1265

Chapter 1: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1266

Chapter 2: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1268

Chapter 3: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1272

Chapter 4: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1273

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Chapter 5.

Social Nature Spheres of the Social Production

and Perpetual Peace. Statics.

Publication:

In English: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1274 

In Russian: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=1126

Man always lives in spheres.

Peter Sloterdijk

         The social nature existence integrity, as well as other natures of the Earth, is subject to the universal planetary law of “Equal Necessity and Sufficiency of Spheres” (ENSS), revealed in Chapter-3. But since all spheres of society are not of natural, but of rational, artificial origin from homo sapiens, then their spheral logic of the society o­ntology, existence acquires a rational, artificial, i.e. man-made human character.

         Based o­n many studies starting with the classics works of English political economy, primarily Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Karl Marx, French sociology, starting since Charles Montesquieu and Auguste Comte up to the works of Nikolai Danilevsky, Maxim Kovalevsky, Vladimir Vernadsky, Max Weber, Mahatma Gandhi, Alexander Bogdanov, Karl Jaspers, Pitirim Sorokin, Nikolai Kondratyev, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Talcott Parsons, Fernand Braudel, Alvin Toffler, Jürgen Habermas, Pierre Bourdieu, Peter Sloterdijk and many others*, directly or indirectly concerning the fundamental spheral foundations of human existence, it can be stated that they came close to differentiating the four social ENSS. It was their great historical mission as thinkers in the human thinking development.

         But within the disciplinary thinking framework, they were unable to rise to the level conscious spheral generalizations in the corresponding integral, transdisciplinary categories and concepts. In accordance with our synopsis format we have adopted, we will not delve into these studies history, their terminological diversity and argumentation that we have considered in many works.

Our map of the sixteen ENSS of planetary society in Figure 9 (below) deepens and generalizes in spheres of the humanity social life productive substance, which is capable of existing o­nly in states of perpetual peace through the spontaneous or conscious harmony of these constant, eternal spheres, and in no other way. They are classified into four necessary and sufficient groups of social spheres: RESOURCES, PROCESSES, STRUCTURES/SPHERES, and STATES/SPHERONS. Their minimally sufficient justification as historical facts/truths is below.

         * Most of these and other works of the spheral thinking outstanding predecessors were analyzed in a number of our books, primarily in: “Sociology for Pragmatists” (1999). “Tetrasociology” (2002), “Tetrasociology” (2003), “The ABC of Harmony” (2012), “Global Peace Science” (2014, 2016, and 2017) and many other books and articles presented in the bibliography and published o­n the GGHA website: https://peacefromharmony.org.

1. FACT-8. ENSS of the PIOT social resources

         The reasonable and collective/social way of person/society autopoiesis ensures the creation of such spheres of vital artificial resources that he does not find in nature. As a result of a long and spontaneous social selection, four ENSS of artificial social resources are constituted: PEOPLE (population), INFORMATION (any knowledge of all forms and scales), ORGANIZATION (ordered communication, uniting resources to produce new o­nes), THINGS (material goods and services created by human). Abbreviated as PIOT. PIOT are eternal integral HOLONS of society/humanity.

         An infinite number of the PIOT historically transient types, parts, enterprises and branches, which in spheral science are called PARTONS, composes the PIOT eternal resource spheres of society. The continuous change of infinite partons is an immanent way of preserving their eternal, constant holons - spheres. Figuratively speaking, the holons/spheres are constant shores of the countless partons continuously changing flows in each sphere. If the flows disappear, their banks will disappear too. And if the banks disappear, then all the streams will dissolve, disappear in their boundless and disorderly chaos. Therefore they cannot exist without each other.

         The PIOT resources are the most effective tools/methods to accumulate and save the necessary and sufficient sources of social life and energy of a person/society, without which they remain at the biological animal/flock level. Each new generation of people finds a certain quantity and quality of accumulated PIOT, previously created by past generations of people as an initial platform for their life, in order, in turn, to expand their composition with new types of resources and improve the quality of their previous types. The process of expanded autopoiesis of the PIOT resource spheres constitutes the eternal production substance and substrate of the person/humanity entire life and history. It constitutes eternal sociogenesis as a whole in the entire social space/time. Therefore, the PIOT spheres are substantial social spheres, which determine all other social spheres.

         In this sociogenesis process each of the PIOT resources substantial spheres equally necessary with other resources and o­nly together with them constitutes a sufficient complex for it. In the absence or zeroing of any of these resources, the life of a person, any community and society as a whole is impossible that is proven by a thought experiment available to everyreasonable individual and society as a whole. Therefore, the PIOT spheral resources are the eternal historical fact of social nature, its reality. Awareness of this social resources ENSS reality is recognition of the HISTORICAL FACT of their eternity in the holistic spheral thinking (HST) and in its spheral, macrosociological and transdisciplinary perpetual peace science.

2. FACT-9. ENSS of the PDEC social processes

         The PIOT artificial social resources are created o­nly by society, o­nly in a social nature and in no other. Adam Smith defined the main stages of the life cycle of material resources: PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, EXCHANGE, and CONSUMPTION, abbreviated as PDEC. Then they were recognized as necessary and sufficient for all PIOT resources without exception and any doubts at anyone.

         Indeed, if artificial resources are not created by either physical or organic nature, then humanity is forced to constantly PRODUCE them independently. Since their production is concentrated in the most favorable locations for them o­n the planet and o­n countries, then the produced resources/partons must be DISTRIBUTED between them and their production cells. Since each of them is limited to the production of o­nly o­ne parton of resources or several of them, then between enterprises and countries there arises a strict need for trade EXCHANGE of the created resources between them. In view of the fact that initially each parton of the PIOT resources is produced with the final purpose of its use (without which it becomes unnecessary, and its production is superfluous), then the final stage of the creation of any of the PIOT parton resources is its necessary CONSUMPTION.

         All stages, processes of creation of any of the PIOT parton resources are necessary and o­nly together sufficient in its life cycle. In the absence or zeroing of any of these PDEC processes, the existence of PIOT resources and the life of a person and society as a whole is impossible. This is proven by a thought experiment available to everyrational individual and society as a whole. Therefore, PDEC, like PIOT, is an eternal historical fact of social nature, its reality. Awareness of this PDEC social processes ENSS reality is recognition of the HISTORICAL FACT of their eternity in the HST and in its spheral, macrosociological and transdisciplinary perpetual peace science.

3. FACT-10. ENSS of the SIOT social structures

         Each of the PIOT resources has its own social nature, which is determined by its immanent laws, qualities and attributes, irreducible to each other. The qualitative specificity of each of the PIOT resources determines the unique feature of the life cycle of each of them and the unique feature of the tools, the PIOT resources and their PDEC processes, technologies necessary for it. These features, in turn, determine the qualitative, structural differentiation of their production eternal spheres. Four ENSS social resources of PIOT necessarily determine the corresponding ENSS social structures of their production. These are four structural spheres of SP, different in technology, as well as in their subject and product. These are:

1. SOCIOSPHERE, the subject and product of which are PEOPLE.

2. INFOSPHERE, the subject and product of which is INFORMATION.

3. ORGSPHERE, the subject and product of which is ORGANIZATION/ORDER.

4. TECHNOSPHERE, economy, the subject and product of which are THINGS (material goods and services) of society. They are abbreviated as SIOT-spheres of society. Their natural necessity and sufficiency is determined by the law of ENSS of PIOT.

         All structural spheres of SP, uniting the corresponding PIOT resources for their product, are necessary and sufficient for the life of an individual and society. In the absence or zeroing of any of these spheres of production, the life of a person and society is impossible. This is proven by a thought experiment available to everyrational individual and society as a whole. Therefore, the structural SIOT-spheres, as well as PIOT, which are produced in them, are an eternal historical fact of social nature, its reality. Awareness of these SIOT-spheres reality is recognition of the HISTORICAL FACT of their eternity in the HST and in its spheral, macrosociological and transdisciplinary perpetual peace science.

4. FACT-11. ENSS of the SIOT social actors-spherons

         All structural ENSS of SP with all their resources, processes and technologies are dead and lifeless without people employed in them. People are the o­nly resource of society, which are simultaneously the society constantly acting energy as its o­nly, constant actor, the creator of all resources, processes and structures of society, giving them social energy, movement and social meaning by their employment in them. The сonstant groups of people/population, who are employed in four SIOT spheres of SP and differ in their employment in these spheres are called SPHERONS. Spherons cover the entire population from birth to death. They constitute its eternal, fundamental social structure of society at all levels of society, as eternal as its resources PIOT and the SIOT spheres of production that produce them.

         Four spherons are:

1. SOIOSPHERON, employed in the SOCIOSPHERE in the production of PEOPLE.

2. INFOSPHERON, employed in the INFOSPHERE in the production of INFORMATION.

3. ORGSFERON, employed in the ORGSPHERE in the production of ORGANIZATIONS.

4. TECHNOSPHERON, employed in the TECHNOSPHERE (economy) in the production of THINGS, all material goods and services of society. Together, in their dialectical system, they are designated as SIOT-spherons of society, determining the SP perpetual peace state with the dynamics of their internal harmony/disharmony, determined by their historically transient partons (classes, parties, elites, states, etc.). The natural necessity and sufficiency of the eternal SIOT spherons is determined by the ENSS of the society eternal PIOT resources. The chapter below is devoted to the category of “spherons” as the HST central category.

         The SP spherons and spheres correspond to four ENSS of each individual: BODY, WILL, CONSCIOUSNESS AND CHARACTER. They constitute the individual psychological genome of each person, which structurally similar to the spheral social genome with corresponding individual needs, abilities and other features. They together determine social needs, abilities, relationships, productive forces, productive labor, the SP effectiveness, the status and roles of the individual in society etc. They are analyzed in detail at the level of hypotheses in our books "Tetrasociology" (2002, pp. 53-59), "The ABC of Harmony" (2012, pp. 43-47) and others, therefore they are not considered here.

         The identity of the eternal, spheral structure of social spherons and each individual as a social being determines many corresponding categories and concepts of spheral thinking. These primarily include the following: spheral employment, spheral labor, spheral work, spheral efficiency, spheral quality of life and labor, spheral needs and abilities, spheral productivity, spheral productive forces, spheral surplus value, the SP spheral organization, spheral social equality, spheral social structure and stratification, spheral fractals, spheral governance and management and many similar o­nes, some of which will be considered below.

         The ENSS law, defining equal social significance/necessity of the SP spheres with the same iron necessity determines SOCIAL EQUALITY OF SPHERONS, who are employed in these spheres, covering the humanity entire population. The spherons equality of is the main non-economic, social source for accelerated growth of the OP, society prosperity and perpetual peace in it that will be argued in more detail below.

         The SIOT spherons constant social structure at all the SP levels, determined by the ENSS law, excluding any real absence or zeroing of any of the spherons that is proven by a thought experiment available to every rational individual and society as a whole, constitutes an eternal historical fact of social nature, its reality. Awareness of this SIOT spherons reality is recognition of the HISTORICAL FACT of their eternity in the HST and in its spheral, macrosociological and transdisciplinary perpetual peace science.

         Peter Sloterdijk, an outstanding German philosopher, at the end of the last century and the beginning of our substantiated the fundamentally simple conclusion "Man always lives in spheres" and uses the concept of a sphere for a symbolic description of almost all significant phenomena from God and the cosmos to the individual and his inner world. He dedicated to it the trilogy "Spheres" (1998-2004) of almost 3 thousand pages (https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=862).

         If "man always lives in spheres", then they constitute a holistic, spheral, "substantial" way of being of a social man and humanity, which he does not notice, as a natural given to it by the planet nature. The cognitive disclosure of this o­nly holistic way of his being in the SP, perpetual peace, social life, etc., immanently determines the birth and awareness of his "substantially new manner of thinking" (Einstein) - holistic spheral thinking (HST). o­nly it turns out to be the o­nly adequate o­ne for the integral, not torn apart by branches and disciplines, spheral social nature. Homo sapiens has not yet consciously risen to this level of thinking, but has come as close to it as possible under the pressure of the extreme objective need to survive in the MAD nuclear civilization and to overcome its all-tearing confrontation, threatening its survival as a species.

         The social spheres find their generalized scientific expression o­n their macrosociological structural map in Figure 9 as the central and integrative part of the "Conscious Culture (Faith + Science) of the Humanity Perpetual Peace" general map o­n our book cover.

Fig. 9. Map of 16 social ENSS within “Perpetual Peace Science” in the HST

5. FACT-12. The Law:

"Conditions Identity for Production and Perpetual Peace" (CIPPP)

         The humanity states/conditions of perpetual peace is inseparable from its o­nly way of eternal life in the eternal and continuous process of social production (SP), which never stops for a second. All spheres of SP are spheres of perpetual peace, since the process of production is not carried out and cannot be carried out in a simultaneous state of war, when the participants in production kill each other. This is social nonsense, absurdity: there is no production in murder/war. And vice versa: all spheres of perpetual peace are simultaneously spheres of the humanity SP as its way of being. This is an eternal obvious fact, which is therefore not even mentioned as self-evident. Therefore, the spheres of SP and perpetual peace are inseparable and exist o­nly thanks to each other that is confirmed in o­ne way or another in this and all subsequent chapters. The states/conditions identity of production and perpetual peace (CIPPP) is a fundamental planetary immanent law of social being, spheral thinking and its Perpetual Peace Science (PPS).

         Humberto Maturana, a Chilean biologist, and his colleagues, has proved the identity of social life with production as a special, conscious form of biological «self-production, autopoiesis». The biological, natural justification of the production substance and substrate of social life expands and deepens its scientific understanding, which classical political economy began to develop from the end of the 18th century. It continues and is extensively expanded in the updated socio-humanitarian disciplines right up to our time in the emerging spheral macrosociological thinking of a holistic, transdisciplinary scale.

6. The SP Spheres as spheres of the humanity perpetual peace

         ALL groups of the social ENSS define the eternal, spheral logic of the human/humanity social life/SP and its perpetual peace through their spontaneously generated HARMONY, o­nly the knowledge and use of which will allow humanity to ensure perpetual peace, excluding all wars, armed violence and peacefully emerge from an inexorably genocidal nuclear civilization today.

         There is no place for war and violence among the eternal and constant planetary spheres of social nature, to which the o­nly state of perpetual peace, first discovered by the genius of Immanuel Kant, is adequate. He wrote: “an armistice, a temporary cessation of hostilities [is not] peace, which means the end of all hostility… and destroys all existing causes of future war,” constituting “perpetual peace” (https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=1099). Therefore, the concepts of peace and perpetual peace are identical in Kant that is perceived by us. However, since Kant, countless military armistices have acquired a real identity with peace, so we often use the term “perpetual peace” to distinguish peace from armistice/truce. He argued that “the state of constant war… as a wild, lawless freedom” is overcome by “the compulsory laws of international law” (ibid.) o­n the basis of “the structure of human inclinations, the nature of which [guarantees] perpetual peace” (ibid.). Thus, Kant sees the ultimate basis of perpetual peace in social nature. This fundamental idea is fully integrated and developed in our PPS, which excludes war and violence.

         War and violence find their local, petty space o­nly among historically transient, narrow and limited, temporary partons with disciplinary, confrontational thinking: nations, states, classes, corporations, parties, elites and other historically temporary "trifle". But they, possessing power and control over all spheral resources, are extremely important, a priority in small segments of social time, measured by the small measure of the population generations in the composition of eternal spherons.

         Eternally warring in history the temporary partons, excluding perpetual peace, are content with its temporary surrogate - a truce, a break between their wars and preparation for their new wars. This was the case in the past and present century between three world wars, including the third o­ne that is flaring up today with the irresistible threat of the MAD nuclear holocaust (Chapter 2).

The key categories of 16 social ENSS, reflecting the corresponding eternal historical facts, ensuring their fundamental verification constitute the systemic framework of spheral thinking guaranteeing the consent of all nations in perpetual peace o­n the foundation of this planetary, objective truth, uniform for all, excluding wars and violence. The considered spheres and corresponding categories, together with many concepts derived from them constitute the mental substance of spheral thinking, the social genome of human/humanity, the original cell of society at all levels and their single spheral logic in history.

         A more detailed analysis of the key, innovative scientific category of spherons in spheral thinking, its origin, its integrative, holistic and transdisciplinary nature, as well as its fundamental significance for all socio-humanitarian sciences without exception in their unity is revealed in the next chapters.

The Chapter for discussion and editing prepared by:

Leo Semashko

https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=253

17-06-25

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Social Spheres of Perpetual Peace

Dear peacemakers-coauthors,

We are happy to send for your consideration Chapter 5 "Spheres of social nature..." p. 6 of our Primer. It is published in 2 languages ​​on the website here:

In Russian: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=1126

In English: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1274

And in the attachment.

A big thank you to Lucas for the excellent English editing of Chapter 4.

Another good news is that the number of visits to our website has exceeded 22 million.

With peace and love,

Leo Semashko

17-06-25

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В 5 главе нашего Букваря всё хорошо, по-моему. А вот в новый замечательный баннер нужно добавить "ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ", с которого начинается практическое воплощение культуры и науки и мира.

Также в этом ряду надо поместить наш, сферный ИИ, с которым мы связываем глобальную реализацию Науки Мира. Это было бы, по-моему, полное структурное определение новой "Культуры Вечного Мира" нашего века.

С уважением,

Вера Попович

17-06-25

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Dear Leo,

Thank you so much for your kind words. I’m deeply moved that you chose to publish my edited version of Chapter 2 in full — and as a priority, no less. It’s a great honor to contribute to such meaningful work and to support your vision.

Congratulations o­n the extraordinary outreach! Reaching over 22 million people is no small feat — it’s a testament to your lifelong dedication and the resonance of your message. I’m genuinely inspired.

Yes, I would be glad to help edit the remaining chapters of our Primer in a similar style. It’s essential work, and I’m happy to contribute to a version that can help amplify our cause, especially for Matt’s American publication. 

I'm looking forward to continuing our collaboration.

In solidarity and with warm regards,

Lucas Pawlik

https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=887

Austria

18-06-25

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