The Science of Purposeful Human Behavior

We cannot approach our subject if we disregard the meaning which acting man attaches to the situation. The events concerned can be investigated both from the point of view of praxeology and from that of the natural sciences. But he who deals with the discharge in of a firearm from the physical and chemical point of view is not a praxeologist. He neglects the very problems which the science of purposeful human behavior aims to clarify on the serviceableness of instincts. We observe two things, first, the inherent tendency of a living organism to respond to a stimulus according to a regular pattern. And second, the favorable effects of this kind of behavior for the strengthening or preservation of the organisms vital forces