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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Page 97
... bring their accustomed rewards . Yet once the situation is ripe , and once the prophet appears , a whole series of changes will come about with remarkable swiftness ; and though these changes may bring no improvement in material con ...
... bring their accustomed rewards . Yet once the situation is ripe , and once the prophet appears , a whole series of changes will come about with remarkable swiftness ; and though these changes may bring no improvement in material con ...
Page 138
... bring about self - destruction . Cancer is , from the standpoint of the organism , prolific but purposeless growth , and all purposeless growth must produce death . By the same token , a purpose that reaches beyond any immediate ...
... bring about self - destruction . Cancer is , from the standpoint of the organism , prolific but purposeless growth , and all purposeless growth must produce death . By the same token , a purpose that reaches beyond any immediate ...
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... bring forth a new human being , so the division of labor between the three personality - types will be justified by their common parturition of a new kind of man , capable of living in a unified world , adaptive to every kind of ...
... bring forth a new human being , so the division of labor between the three personality - types will be justified by their common parturition of a new kind of man , capable of living in a unified world , adaptive to every kind of ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
ORIENTATION TO LIFE | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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achieved action active animal become biological type bring Buddhist 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 human personality ical 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 routine Schweitzer seek self-fabricating sense single Singular Points social society Socrates spirit super-ego symbols teleology tion totalitarian Toynbee transformation universal values whole world government York