Empiricism of organization

This method involves analyzing the present in light of the past to predict societal evolution through psychology and derive principles for action.

[3] Maurras argued that society's organization and institutions should result from a centuries-long selection process, with monarchy considered optimal for France.

[6][7]Through organizing empiricism, Maurras rejected deterministic philosophies, whether optimistic like Marxism or pessimistic like Guénonism, as well as the democratic idea that the future can be built without regard for the past, based solely on public opinion.

[3] Maurras traced the roots of organizing empiricism to Thomism as interpreted by Jacques Maritain and, more broadly, the Philosophia perennis of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle[citation needed].

[8] According to writer Jacques Paugam, Charles de Gaulle may have employed organizing empiricism in orchestrating the independence of Sub-Saharan Africa.