The Conduct of LifeHarcourt, Brace, 1951 - 342 pages Discusses the ultimate ethical and religious issues that confront modern man and offers a new orientation, directed to the renewal of life and the reintegration of modern civilization. |
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... personality . Humanism , which made man the center again , lacked the humility to participate in a kind of change ... human behavior and that of other animals , near or remote , has borne abundant fruit . In so far as we take account of the ...
... personality . Humanism , which made man the center again , lacked the humility to participate in a kind of change ... human behavior and that of other animals , near or remote , has borne abundant fruit . In so far as we take account of the ...
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... human personality may produce an effect out of all proportion to its physical powers , just as a tiny seed - crystal , dropped into a saturate solution , may cause the whole mass to assume a similar crystalline form . Such timely ...
... human personality may produce an effect out of all proportion to its physical powers , just as a tiny seed - crystal , dropped into a saturate solution , may cause the whole mass to assume a similar crystalline form . Such timely ...
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... human personality , modified by its capacities and its needs and its cultural forms . Instead of begin- ning with nature and eliminating , as far as possible , the operations of the personality , we must begin with the human personality ...
... human personality , modified by its capacities and its needs and its cultural forms . Instead of begin- ning with nature and eliminating , as far as possible , the operations of the personality , we must begin with the human personality ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
2242 | 25 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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achieved action active animal become biological type body bring Buddhism capable capacity century Christian civilization concept conscious cosmic create creative creatures culture death detachment dionysian discipline disintegration divine doctrine dominant drama dream dynamic dynamic equilibrium effect effort elements emergence essential ethical evil existence experience external fact forces functions further goal growth habits Herman Melville higher Hindu Hinduism human personality ideal impulses inner insight interpretation isolationism lack life's living man's Marxism means mechanical ment merely mind modern moral nature once one's organic original Patrick Geddes pattern perhaps philosophy physical Plato possible potentialities practice present present philosophy produce promethean psychodrama purpose religion renewal response role romanticism Schweitzer seek self-fabricating sense single Singular Points social society Socrates spirit super-ego symbols teleology tion Toynbee transformation unity universal values whole world government York