Is it really true that, as the Roman philosopher Seneca famously
said in antiquity, "It is the quality rather than the quantity that
matters"? (TE 2013) This popular view on quality can be contrasted
with an opposing view by John Ruskin, who wrote that "the strength
and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good
men and women in it." (TE 2013a) Contrary to these opposing views
(and other ones as will be discussed in the book), human resources
(in relation to quantity and quality) are neither possible (nor
impossible) nor desirable (or undesirable) to the extent that the
respective ideologues (on different sides) would like us to
believe. Of course, this questioning of the opposing views on human
resources does not imply that the study of quantity and quality is
worthless, or that those fields (related to human resources)like
demographics, human resource management, labor economics,
development studies, environmental migration, modernization,
organizational studies, sustainable growth, and so onare
unimportant. (WK 2013) Needless to say, neither of these extreme
views is reasonable. Instead, this book offers an alternative
(better) way to understand the future of human resources in regard
to the dialectic relationship between quantity and quality
(especially, though not solely, in the context of
demographics)while learning from different approaches in the
literature but without favoring any one of them (nor integrating
them, since they are not necessarily compatible with each other).
More specifically, this book offers a new theory (that is, the
post-human theory of demography) to go beyond the existing
approaches in a novel way and is organized in four chapters. This
seminal project will fundamentally change the way that we think
about human resources in relation to quantity and quality
(especially, though not solely, in the context of demographics)
from the combined perspectives of the mind, nature, society, and
culture, with enormous implications for the human future and what I
originally called its "post-human" fate.
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