This book enriches the four causes of Aristotelian thought-i.e., the material, formative, efficient and final causes (Duque, 1.992) - and a previously suggested fifth cause (Duque, 1.999), the Maturity Cause, using the same methodology discovered while working with the four causes.
The evolving conceptual framework took the author to suggest in The New Approach to Science (2018), the four causes taught by the Greeks became associated with the qualitative, the formative, the experimental, and the explanatory methods. Because the author concluded that science is the attraction to the beauty of truth, he discarded the quantitative approach. Beauty is related to the desire form, shape, or arrangement, searching for justice, unity, harmony, symmetry, and moderation. The exploratory and propositional methods emerged from the Maturity Cause. The art of inter-weaving the causes horizontally and vertically, using the grouping criteria for constructing the "single science" also appears from a very challenging question from the distinguished scholar, Ian Kluge. A total of six methods of science and one art.
Each of the causes is associated with a group of crucial notions and a set of human faculties. The coordinated interaction of those notions and faculties results in the development of each method of science.
Later, the author found a quote from Baha'u'llah in The Summons of the Lord of Hosts:
"Say: We have revealed Our verses in nine different modes. Each one of them bespeaketh the sovereignty of God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting. A single one of them sufficeth for a proof unto all who are in the heavens and on the earth; yet the people, for the most part, persist in their heedlessness. Should it be Our wish, We would reveal them in countless other modes."
That quote inspired the author to continue searching. In this book, the author suggests the Root Cause and the Destiny Method of Science and the Art of Persuasion, which is the second to last chapter.
This conceptual framework is a valuable tool for solving everyday common issues and resolving significant individual and collective challenges; its framework to perceive, interpret and transform reality profoundly questions the definition of science today. "The spiritual world is like unto the phenomenal world. They are the exact counterpart of each other. Whatever objects appear in this world of existence are the outer pictures of the world of heaven".[1] What would be the synergistic effect when "science and religion, the two most potent forces in human life,"[2] become reconciled?
[1] The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 813
[2] Shoghi Effendi in the Introduction of a book by Bah¡'u'll¡h, The Proclamation of Bah¡'u'll¡h, p. xi.
