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Suppose, for example, man had concentrated upon increasing his individual
working capacity so little as two horsepower: along that line, he might have taken
half a million years to effect, by selective breeding or otherwise, this tremendous
...
Suppose, for example, man had concentrated upon increasing his individual
working capacity so little as two horsepower: along that line, he might have taken
half a million years to effect, by selective breeding or otherwise, this tremendous
...
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But man's capacity for misusing verbalization is no reason for devaluing the
function itself. The various contemporary reactions against the full employment of
language, from da-daism to logical positivism, will not in the least save us from
error ...
But man's capacity for misusing verbalization is no reason for devaluing the
function itself. The various contemporary reactions against the full employment of
language, from da-daism to logical positivism, will not in the least save us from
error ...
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But far-sightedness is necessary in order to do justice to immediate goods in their
proper order and to anticipate their probable consequences: the moral
bankruptcy of Neville Chamberlain and the moral capacity of Winston Churchill,
with ...
But far-sightedness is necessary in order to do justice to immediate goods in their
proper order and to anticipate their probable consequences: the moral
bankruptcy of Neville Chamberlain and the moral capacity of Winston Churchill,
with ...
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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 balanced person become biological type bring Buddhist capacity century Christian civilization concept consciousness cosmic create creative creatures culture daily death detachment dionysian discipline disintegration doctrine dominant drama dream dynamic equilibrium effect effort elements essential ethical evil existence experience external fact forces freedom functions further Gifford Lectures goal growth habits Herman Melville higher Hindu human personality ical ideal impulses inner insight interpretation isolationism knowledge Kroeber lack life's living London man's Marxism means mechanical ment merely mind modern moral nature once one's organic original Patrick Geddes perhaps philosophy physical Plato possible potentialities practice present present philosophy produce psychodrama purpose religion renewal responsibility romanticism routine Schweitzer seek self-fabricating sense single Singular Points social society Socrates spirit super-ego symbols teleology tion transformation universal values whole withdrawal world government York
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| Titre | The Conduct of Life Volume 4 de Renewal of life |
| Auteur | Lewis Mumford |
| Éditeur | Secker & Warburg, 1952 |
| Original provenant de | l'Université de Californie |
| Numérisé | 29 nov. 2017 |
| Longueur | 342 pages |
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