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Audiobook Korzybski, Alfred Manhood of Humanity.

2008 · 7:11:48 · Non-fiction · Narrated by AI AI narration

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This sociological study examines human progress from an engineering perspective, defining humanity not as biological animals or spiritual hybrids, but as a distinct time-binding class of life. The text explores how civilization advances through the accumulation of past labor and knowledge.

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The author presents a radical reformulation of human history, economics, and sociology by treating humankind through the precise lens of mathematical and engineering principles. Instead of viewing human beings as mere animals governed by the primitive rules of natural selection, the work establishes that humans belong to a higher dimension of life defined by the capacity to bind time. This core thesis demonstrates that human achievements, wealth, and science do not merely add up arithmetically, but accumulate exponentially across generations through the preservation and transmission of past toil. The volume critiques traditional political economy and static social sciences, arguing that prevailing theories of capital, wealth, and money rely on fundamentally flawed definitions that ignore the temporal nature of civilization.

By analyzing the structural disparity between rapid technological progress and lagging social institutions, the author exposes the underlying causes of modern societal crises, industrial conflicts, and catastrophic wars. Furthermore, the text contrasts the destructive space-binding struggle of the animal kingdom with the creative time-binding competition for excellence in science, art, and wisdom. The argument develops a rigorous framework for an impending era of human manhood, wherein societal affairs are guided rationally rather than through emotional speculation or partisan greed. Although the volume addresses complex systemic dysfunctions, it ultimately offers a constructive vision of a cooperative commonwealth of man, grounded in the unalterable natural laws of human capability and sustainable development.

What the book is about

  • human beings
  • progress

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