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4: ETERNITY, SEX AND DEATH Every culture has sought, in terms of its own
special situation and experience, for a provisional answer to the unanswerable
questions that religion propounds. Some cultures, like that of the ancient Greeks,
...
4: ETERNITY, SEX AND DEATH Every culture has sought, in terms of its own
special situation and experience, for a provisional answer to the unanswerable
questions that religion propounds. Some cultures, like that of the ancient Greeks,
...
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In some sense, the dead are still alive; yet the living likewise must partake of
death even before their life reaches its natural terminus. Long before Socrates
observed that the task of philosophy is to prepare one for death, religion made
this its ...
In some sense, the dead are still alive; yet the living likewise must partake of
death even before their life reaches its natural terminus. Long before Socrates
observed that the task of philosophy is to prepare one for death, religion made
this its ...
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Death comes to every household. No Shakespearean apothecary, no unctuous
mortician in the Hollywood style, can heal those ills. Often the worst of these evils
have nothing whatever to do with one's individual deserts: Job and Oedipus both
...
Death comes to every household. No Shakespearean apothecary, no unctuous
mortician in the Hollywood style, can heal those ills. Often the worst of these evils
have nothing whatever to do with one's individual deserts: Job and Oedipus both
...
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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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