THE CIVIL AND THE EVIL: KORZYBSKI'S MANHOOD OF HUMANITY.

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Title:	THE CIVIL AND THE EVIL: KORZYBSKI'S MANHOOD OF HUMANITY.
Authors:	DESAI, RAKESH
Source:	ETC: A Review of General Semantics. Jul-Oct2022, Vol. 79 Issue 3/4, p250-258. 9p.
Subjects:	Korzybski, Alfred, 1879-1950, Manhood of Humanity: The Science & Art of Human Engineering (Book), Ergonomics, Civilization, Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881, Notes From the Underground (Book : Dostoyevsky)
Abstract:	Alfred Korzybski's "Manhood of Humanity" (1921) proposes a method of Human Engineering and the human capacity for time-binding, leading to ethics, economics, and politics, marked with compassion, selflessness, and brotherhood, the civil human nature. But the Second World War disobeyed the laws of Human Engineering, and indicates that Korzybski's concept of man refers to what men should know and do, and not to what men know and do. Further, Freud implies a retrogressive coexistence of various phases of time within a life span, contrary to Korzybski's idea of progressive time-binding, and also the tendency to aggression as a constant threat to civilization. Further, the nameless underground man in Dostoyevsky's "Notes from the Underground" (1864) underlines the fact that man has often, even knowingly, thought and acted in a self-destructive way. The contemporary global challenges of terrorism and environmental crisis alert us to the evil in man. The engagement with the civil in man in Korzybski's view of man must negotiate more rigorously with the evil in man. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstract:	Alfred Korzybski's "Manhood of Humanity" (1921) proposes a method of Human Engineering and the human capacity for time-binding, leading to ethics, economics, and politics, marked with compassion, selflessness, and brotherhood, the civil human nature. But the Second World War disobeyed the laws of Human Engineering, and indicates that Korzybski's concept of man refers to what men should know and do, and not to what men know and do. Further, Freud implies a retrogressive coexistence of various phases of time within a life span, contrary to Korzybski's idea of progressive time-binding, and also the tendency to aggression as a constant threat to civilization. Further, the nameless underground man in Dostoyevsky's "Notes from the Underground" (1864) underlines the fact that man has often, even knowingly, thought and acted in a self-destructive way. The contemporary global challenges of terrorism and environmental crisis alert us to the evil in man. The engagement with the civil in man in Korzybski's view of man must negotiate more rigorously with the evil in man. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:	0014164X