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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... animal rela- tives either by the fact that he lives in groups or performs physical work with tools . Man is first and foremost the self - fabricating animal : the only creature who has not rested content with his biological form or with ...
... animal rela- tives either by the fact that he lives in groups or performs physical work with tools . Man is first and foremost the self - fabricating animal : the only creature who has not rested content with his biological form or with ...
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... animal needs and his exorbitant capacities for pain and misery , concealed even in his briefest pleasures and joys ? May he thus escape from the dismal cycle of animal existence : may he , even while he is on earth , by strict efforts ...
... animal needs and his exorbitant capacities for pain and misery , concealed even in his briefest pleasures and joys ? May he thus escape from the dismal cycle of animal existence : may he , even while he is on earth , by strict efforts ...
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... animal , if he is not to fall below the level of any beast . As a product of nature , whose past links him with other animal species , whose present condition unites him in complicated ecological partnerships , making him dependent upon ...
... animal , if he is not to fall below the level of any beast . As a product of nature , whose past links him with other animal species , whose present condition unites him in complicated ecological partnerships , making him dependent upon ...
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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