The Conduct of LifeSecker & Warburg, 1952 - 342 pages |
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... totalitarian and quasi - totalitarian governments . The handsomest encomium for such creatures is : " They do not make trouble . " Their highest virtue is : " They do not stick their necks out . " Ultimately , such a society pro- duces ...
... totalitarian and quasi - totalitarian governments . The handsomest encomium for such creatures is : " They do not make trouble . " Their highest virtue is : " They do not stick their necks out . " Ultimately , such a society pro- duces ...
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... totalitarian countries today , the sense of being the healthy exponents of a new form of life . This is but a momentary illusion . The totalitarian drug is as fatal as the infection it arrests . Thus the inertia of " progress " today ...
... totalitarian countries today , the sense of being the healthy exponents of a new form of life . This is but a momentary illusion . The totalitarian drug is as fatal as the infection it arrests . Thus the inertia of " progress " today ...
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... totalitarian countries . In an active or latent state , nihilism is at work throughout our civilization . This brings us to another set of symptoms that indicate the gen- eral breakdown in Western civilization . In many areas , we are ...
... totalitarian countries . In an active or latent state , nihilism is at work throughout our civilization . This brings us to another set of symptoms that indicate the gen- eral breakdown in Western civilization . In many areas , we are ...
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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