Men's Skills Research Articles

Social Progress and Sport

The measure of the development of man regarding the level of the social conditions necessary for his existence and welfare, and the corresponding faculties and skills of man himself is on principle the social progress. That is why the results of the scientific and technical revolution, its social consequences and the advantages and possibilities of a socialist social formation have to be represented from the aspect of social progress. The author investigates the characteristic fea tures of the influence of social progress on sport and the interactions between sport and society, which become apparent from this point of view. On the basis of the Marxian-Leninist theory of culture and sport, he tries to fix some tenden cies of the further development.

Understanding (in the style of St. Paul, I Corinthians 13)

Though I figure with the skills of men and computers and have not understanding, I am become as a mechanical toy, or a lifeless robot.

Planning Solutions Aided by Management and Systems Technology

Urban change is an extreme example of the proverbial product of a committee—most of the changes cannot be attributed to formal or organized planning. Planners who are trying to introduce a more orderly future, to correct present problems, and minimize future ones, must call upon all the skills of man—and perhaps, more—and it is unfortunate that planners are divided, in C. P. Snow's sense, into two cultures which little understand one another. The contribution of technology to planning solutions has its greatest potential and its severest limitations in the emphasis upon formal models, and analysis and evaluation based largely on quantitative techniques. The understanding of these methods, and the combining of them with other methods of planning, will provide the "optimal" solution.

Plotinus and the Theory of Artistic Imitation

In the opening chapter of his Life ol Plotinus, Porphyry remarks that his master was so ashamed of being in the body that he could never bring himself to discuss his birth, his parentage or his native country; moreover, he consistently refused to sit for his portrait to a painter or a sculptor, and on one particular occasion stated his objections in the following terms: ?? ?a? ???e? f??e??, d ? f?s?? e?d???? ???? pe??t??e??e?, ???a ?a? e?d???? e?d???? s?????e?? a?t?? ?????? p?????????te??? ?ata??pe?? ?? d? t? t?? a?????at?? ?????; These sentiments remind us, of course, of the theory ot artistic imitation set forth in the tenth book of Plato's Republic x). There is, however, an important difference, for whereas in Plato, the image reproduced by the painter is an inanimate manufactured object, namely a wooden bed, here the proposed model would be the features of an individual human being, an e?d???? created by nature rather than by the skill of man 2). Nevertheless, both Plato and Plotinus seem to be making the same point, that the creations of the visual arts are mere of images inasmuch as the artist copies not the Ideal Form, but a particular material embodiment of it. Thus, a portrait, in what appears to be the view of

Extracurricular Activities and Job Satisfaction for Engineers

While a man's technical knowledge may be his best tool during his first five years or so with our company, in many cases this curve tends to flatten out in the value chart and is met by the ascendant curve of the man's skill in human relations and other factors.

Speech- and language-handicapped children.

In general usage the terms speech and language are used interchangeably. Sematically one has to differentiate between speech and language. Language in its widest sense signifies the elaboration of thoughts and ideas. Language and thought are intimately related and mutually influence each other. Spoken words are arbitrary audible symbols, and propositional, that is, meaningful, speech may be regarded as verbal means of communication, a tool and a manifestation of language. From a phylogenetic point of view, speech is the newest of man's skills. For its normal development one must have a normally functioning brain, adequate hearing, normal peripheral anatomical structures used in speech, and also a stimulating environment. These peripheral structures are not special organs set aside solely for speech. Speech has arrogated to itself structures such as the mouth, lungs, and larynx that biologically perform more vital and quite different functions. The central nervous system acts as an integrator

The Case for Modern Man.

on oblivion, and a whole people retreats into a conservative posture, searching for security. We are afraid. In such a fetid climate of clammy fear it is like a breath of fresh air, dry and clarifying, to read and study a wise book in defence of the liberal position. Such is Charles Frankel's Case for Modern Man. In a society whose weather vanes are blown by such prophets of doom as Jacques Maritain, Arnold Toynbee, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Karl Mannheim, it is a rare pleasure to see the scowling climate of opinion, the foreboding cold front of these critics of the liberal view, called in question in a brilliant and scholarly study. The managerial revolution, the increasing power of federal governments, the strife in America, Europe, Africa, and Asia beset us on all sides. Many men have wondered if the hope for a liberal era was not coming to an end, if not already ended. Toynbee has attacked the secular modern age because of its attempt to construct its own society on humanistic grounds. This, he thinks, demonstrates severe guilt caused by inner pride, for he believes that we are breaking fundamental laws of history. Neibuhr, believing in the all-pervasiveness of original sin, a kind of genetically determined inborn state which is built into the germ plasm of sinful man, rejects the liberal state and with it any possibility that man may be improved or perfected. The evil locked in DNA and RNA is the neocalvinistic equivalent of original sin. Mannheim is opposed to the liberal view because he does not believe in the objectivity of human reason. Maritain, believing in absolutes, objects to the liberal view. He denies the possibility of an experimental attitude in morals. Against this brooding despair, four black birds on a barren wintry wall, this book brings hope if not cheer. It is encouraging, for it holds that human capacity can mold if not entirely control human destiny. Man's skill, potentially, may thwart his own trickery. Thus Frankel recognizes that for the first time man is in a position to bend the future toward his conception of a better world, though the possibilities of failure loom large before us. This unforced enthusiasm is a healthy sign in a society where pessimism is taken for granted, for here we have a positive statement, one brilliantly set forth by a man who shares with some scientists and physicians a belief that human intellect, properly used, may indeed fashion

Les Hommes Fossiles: Eléments de Paléontologie Humaine

ON opening the covers of this magisterial work by Prof. Marcellin Boule, one has the feeling of having entered a court of justice where a severe judge has conveyed to counsel and to witnesses that his cases are to be tried according to the strict law of evidence, and that he will stand no nonsense. All the cases on which is based our conception of the antiquity and origin of man come up for review; judgments are duly given in such clear, unmistakable terms that they carry with them an air of finality. For example, there is the case for eoliths—whether they have been fashioned by the hand of man or by Nature; the judge listens to what Sir E. Ray Lankester and Mr. T. Reid Moir have to say for the worked flints from the Pliocene deposits of East Anglia. A decided verdict is given against them, because, so the judge asserts, it is impossible to tell Nature's handiwork from that of man ! For the learned judge that ancient stone culture known to experts as Chellean, which many archæologists regard as marking a high point in man's skill as a worker in flint, is the earliest that can be attributed to human hands. He admits that there must be preceding and more primitive stone cultures, but Prestwich and Harrison, and also M. Rutot who has espoused the cause of eoliths “by the publication of an avalanche of pamphlets,” were, and are, gravely in error. Les Hommes Fossiles: Eléments de Paléontologie Humaine. By Prof. Marcellin Boule. Pp. xi + 491. (Paris: Masson et. Cie, 1921.) 40 francs net.