The Conduct of LifeSecker & Warburg, 1952 - 342 pages |
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... knowledge of any kind from being achieved without the most strenuous and exacting dis- cipline . For at the very gateway of such knowledge one discovers an obstacle equally intimate : self - love , a protective pride that not merely ...
... knowledge of any kind from being achieved without the most strenuous and exacting dis- cipline . For at the very gateway of such knowledge one discovers an obstacle equally intimate : self - love , a protective pride that not merely ...
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... knowledge in itself does not automatically produce vir- tue : that there is a tendency in all people , including Socrates , to reject as irrelevant , indeed , as non - existent , those forms of self - knowledge that would lame their ...
... knowledge in itself does not automatically produce vir- tue : that there is a tendency in all people , including Socrates , to reject as irrelevant , indeed , as non - existent , those forms of self - knowledge that would lame their ...
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... knowledge , by reason of its very triumphs , promotes . The effect of self - inquisition should enable one to understand one- self and to do justice to oneself : that is , to correct one's blind drives , to overcome one's partialities ...
... knowledge , by reason of its very triumphs , promotes . The effect of self - inquisition should enable one to understand one- self and to do justice to oneself : that is , to correct one's blind drives , to overcome one's partialities ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF | 92 |
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achieved action activities animal become biological type body bring Buddhism capable capacity century Christian civilization concept consciousness cosmic create creative creatures culture death detachment dionysian discipline disintegration divine doctrine dominant drama dream dynamic dynamic equilibrium effect effort elements emergence essential ethics evil existence experience external fact forces functions further goal growth habits Herman Melville higher Hindu Hinduism human personality ideal impulses inner insight interpretation invention 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 practice present present philosophy produce promethean psychodrama purpose religion renewal response role romanticism Schweitzer seek self-fabricating sense single Singular Points social society Socrates spiritual super-ego symbols teleology tion Toynbee transformation unity universal values whole world government York