It goes without saying that we have to pursue theoretic study of hu-man geography for its own development. The object of theoretic geo-graphy, in this point, is to pursue the basic principles of human geo-graphy. The starting point of theoretic geography is to begin with the problem of human life itself. And the most important basis to control whole human life is, whether active or passive, his own internal sub-jective ground. So one must try to apply it to his real life in order to construct his ideal region of life.
The following, as the three factors of a man's whole life, will be taken up:
1. Life idea
2. Activities of life
3. Environments of life
Life idea is the most important central factor in these three items though it is invisible, but what we observe as real phenomena are man's activities of life and his. total environments of life. Then each factor is investigated from an individual case to a general case, and is positively or negatively examined both in its common character and in its original character in every region of life. Each factor, on the other hand, is changeable, but, at the same time, has an unchangeable cha-racter. And each factor as human phenomenon needs to be studied from the three chief points of view: men's social sides, men's economic sides and men's political sides. Of course, the words social, economic and political contain a great variety in each case, so that classification of theoretic geography is to be considered.
The last important problem is to build up the local community as an ideal region of life. The foregoing factors, in other words, are the con-ditions for this problem. And each local community has its own ori-ginality and universality through human life.
Theoretic geography started from the deductive method like that, but it must always be improved by more experimental, inductive methods.
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