Although we have seen that society is not an organism, it is nonetheless a complex entity, which like the human body often displays subtle cause-effect relationships. Consequently, if we wish to determine successful social or political policy, then (like the doctor) we must analyze two things:

1. how humans actually behave in various situations (praxeology); and

2. what is objectively good for human beings (ethics).

The corresponding units in this analogy are diagrammed at right.

individuals in society human body ethics (applied in a social context) normative physiology praxeology diagnostic analysis successful social/political policy successful treatment

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