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the physical organism as a whole, but in the higher functions. Up to the point that
bodily deterioration undermines the higher functions, their expansion and
renewal are the main conditions for a good life: a life of increasing sensitiveness,
...
the physical organism as a whole, but in the higher functions. Up to the point that
bodily deterioration undermines the higher functions, their expansion and
renewal are the main conditions for a good life: a life of increasing sensitiveness,
...
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the lower self must not dominate the higher, neither must the higher seek to
extirpate the lower: for at that moment it removes the energies needed for its own
propulsion. The increasing dominance of the higher functions, which is the
condition ...
the lower self must not dominate the higher, neither must the higher seek to
extirpate the lower: for at that moment it removes the energies needed for its own
propulsion. The increasing dominance of the higher functions, which is the
condition ...
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the cycle of repetition and mere survival on a dull animal level, some measure of
disintegration, as Lloyd Morgan pointed out, is essential to its higher emergence.
The seed must be buried, the husk of the seed must rot, the body must die to its ...
the cycle of repetition and mere survival on a dull animal level, some measure of
disintegration, as Lloyd Morgan pointed out, is essential to its higher emergence.
The seed must be buried, the husk of the seed must rot, the body must die to its ...
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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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