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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... society . Third alternative : But today another course opens : this is compar- able to that which opened in Rome in the fifth century A.D. when the Christian Church laid the basis in faith and thought and practice for a new society ...
... society . Third alternative : But today another course opens : this is compar- able to that which opened in Rome in the fifth century A.D. when the Christian Church laid the basis in faith and thought and practice for a new society ...
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... society becomes possible . This but repeats , in a more decisive and transcendent fashion , a natural process that is con- stantly at work in some degree in every human group and tribe and nation . The imitation of that example provides ...
... society becomes possible . This but repeats , in a more decisive and transcendent fashion , a natural process that is con- stantly at work in some degree in every human group and tribe and nation . The imitation of that example provides ...
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... society : its only form of inhibition or repres- sion is that exercised against the higher functions . The plot of such a society is an inverted drama : it begins with the murder of the hero and successively mutilates , tortures , or ...
... society : its only form of inhibition or repres- sion is that exercised against the higher functions . The plot of such a society is an inverted drama : it begins with the murder of the hero and successively mutilates , tortures , or ...
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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