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But where was the moral reaction that should have taken place, after 1945, if not
during the Second World War, against such anti-human purposes? There is but a
short step from such moral perversion to rabid madness. Only a civilization that ...
But where was the moral reaction that should have taken place, after 1945, if not
during the Second World War, against such anti-human purposes? There is but a
short step from such moral perversion to rabid madness. Only a civilization that ...
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against theology during the last three centuries the concept of purpose itself was
accordingly lost: instead of finding a purposeful world, scientific materialism
professed to discover only a blind accidental one. As a result, many people still
tend ...
against theology during the last three centuries the concept of purpose itself was
accordingly lost: instead of finding a purposeful world, scientific materialism
professed to discover only a blind accidental one. As a result, many people still
tend ...
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Before the book is finished that sentence may be deleted; yet it will, by having
once served as a link in the chain of argument, have performed a genuine
purpose, even though it disappears: it would still, in other words, have been
molded at its ...
Before the book is finished that sentence may be deleted; yet it will, by having
once served as a link in the chain of argument, have performed a genuine
purpose, even though it disappears: it would still, in other words, have been
molded at 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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