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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... creature within has diminished in size in order to accommodate himself to this inimical overgrowth . The contents of modern man's daydreams too closely resemble those of Bloom in Ulysses , filled with the dead tags of newspaper ...
... creature within has diminished in size in order to accommodate himself to this inimical overgrowth . The contents of modern man's daydreams too closely resemble those of Bloom in Ulysses , filled with the dead tags of newspaper ...
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... creature ; and a sense of life- to - come - projected as heaven and eternity in the older forms of reli- gion - still beckons man on . Here the tritest of proverbs utters the profoundest of truths : while there is life there is hope ...
... creature ; and a sense of life- to - come - projected as heaven and eternity in the older forms of reli- gion - still beckons man on . Here the tritest of proverbs utters the profoundest of truths : while there is life there is hope ...
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... creature has come within sight of man in the arts of symbolic communication . Mainly through language man has created a second world , more durable and viable than the immediate flux of experience , more rich in possibilities than the ...
... creature has come within sight of man in the arts of symbolic communication . Mainly through language man has created a second world , more durable and viable than the immediate flux of experience , more rich in possibilities than the ...
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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