Societal Order

• SpiritWiki
• Eupsychia
• LPHDF
  • LP HEALING Framework
  • LP Creative Framework
  • LP Connection Framework
  • LP Educational Framework
  • LP Psychological Framework
    • Consciousness
    • Connection Capacity
    • Connection-Centered Psychology
  • LP Metaphysical Framework
• PEM
  • Pathfinder Pedagogical Framework
    • The Four-Point Foundation
    • The Seven Pillars
    • Pathfinder Root Structure
      • Mind-Body Connection
      • Spirit-Mind Connection
  • Pathfinder Pedagogical Foundations
    • Trauma-Informed Education
    • Life-Centered Education
    • Healing and Connection-Centered
    • Minimally Invasive Education
    • Needs-Satisfying Education
    • Relational Education
      • Dialogic Method
      • Praxis
    • Post-Capitalist Skills
  • Pathfinder Delivery Framework
    • Learning Hub
    • Learning Pod
    • Healing Space
    • Connection Space
    • Learning Series
  • Pathfinder Institute
  • Pathfinder Curriculum
  • Pathfinder AI
    • AI In Education
    • Pathfinder Medium Account
• Avatar.GLOBAL
  • Evolutionary Theory
  • Critical Theory
    • Narrative
      • Creation Template
      • Master Narrative
    • Praxis
  • Spiritual Theory
• Support

Societal Order

The **Societal Order** (Comte’s “outward,” “material,” or “social” order) is the organized arrangement of institutions, roles, commemorations, and powers through which the moral and intellectual orders become "durable [actualized] in history."

Concept Map

Key Term

SpiritWiki >

1. Knowledge System
2. Knowledge Technology
3. Knowledge Steward
4. Consciousness-Potential System
5. Comprehensive Framework
6. Symbiotic Knowledge System
7. Statement of Co-Creation and Collaboration
8. Dialog

Comprehensive Framework > Law of Three Stages

Components

1. Moral Order
2. Intellectual Order
3. Societal Order
4. Sociocrat

Notes

Core functions

Institutionalization. Societal Order fixes the normal separation of temporal/industrial power (execution, production) and spiritual power (direction, judgment, moralization). The higher rank of the latter comes from the higher kind of progress it promotes.

Common calendar and festivals. Through the Positivist Calendar, the cult of the dead, and public worship, the order of society is bound to its past and to Humanity as a whole.

Family / domestic cell. Early moral education in the family (presided over by woman) prepares individuals for incorporation into the public and industrial order.

Sociocracy. The aim is “the general direction of this world” and the creation of “a real Providence… in all departments—moral, intellectual, and material,” which is precisely what a comprehensive societal order does.

Integration of classes. Patriciate (material providence), proletariat (general providence), women (moral providence), and priesthood (intellectual providence) are articulated so that “all the powers of man… conduce to the preservation and improvement of Humanity.”

SpiritWiki note: We can prefer Societal Order to the looser “material order” because Comte is clearly talking about the whole institutional field (family, spiritual power, temporal power, commemorations, education), not only the economy.

Citation and Legal

The SpiritWiki is a freely available, open-access Knowledge System devoted to health, healing, and reconnection. You may freely use information in the SpiritWiki; citation and attribution are welcomed, but not required. You can help this knowledge system grow by joining its Patreon.

Footnotes

References