The Conduct of LifeHarcourt, Brace, 1951 - 342 pages Discusses the ultimate ethical and religious issues that confront modern man and offers a new orientation, directed to the renewal of life and the reintegration of modern civilization. |
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... Schweitzer's early studies was an intimate ex- amination of the life of Jesus , whom he rescued from the fashionable impugners and devaluators by a more rigorous use of the very historic method they had used for deflating him . This ...
... Schweitzer's early studies was an intimate ex- amination of the life of Jesus , whom he rescued from the fashionable impugners and devaluators by a more rigorous use of the very historic method they had used for deflating him . This ...
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... Schweitzer , like a good physician , regards his prognosis , not as a death sentence , but as an incentive to ... Schweitzer urged a return to the generous cosmopolitan humanism of the eighteenth century . Here is an indication of ...
... Schweitzer , like a good physician , regards his prognosis , not as a death sentence , but as an incentive to ... Schweitzer urged a return to the generous cosmopolitan humanism of the eighteenth century . Here is an indication of ...
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... Schweitzer characteristically owes a great debt to Hindu religion no less than to Chinese philosophy : for it is from Hinduism , rather than from Christianity , that Schweitzer consciously or unconsciously derived his central ethical ...
... Schweitzer characteristically owes a great debt to Hindu religion no less than to Chinese philosophy : for it is from Hinduism , rather than from Christianity , that Schweitzer consciously or unconsciously derived his central ethical ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
2242 | 25 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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achieved action active animal become biological type body bring Buddhism capable capacity century Christian civilization concept conscious cosmic create creative creatures culture death detachment dionysian discipline disintegration divine doctrine dominant drama dream dynamic dynamic equilibrium effect effort elements emergence essential ethical evil existence experience external fact forces functions further goal growth habits Herman Melville higher Hindu Hinduism human personality ideal impulses inner insight interpretation 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 potentialities practice present present philosophy produce promethean psychodrama purpose religion renewal response role romanticism Schweitzer seek self-fabricating sense single Singular Points social society Socrates spirit super-ego symbols teleology tion Toynbee transformation unity universal values whole world government York