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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... creatures into clerks and bookkeepers , into physicians and inventors , into farm laborers and mechanics : creatures adapted to many roles of a most exacting kind , not found in nature or in primitive societies . The creation of such ...
... creatures into clerks and bookkeepers , into physicians and inventors , into farm laborers and mechanics : creatures adapted to many roles of a most exacting kind , not found in nature or in primitive societies . The creation of such ...
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... creatures : even their most passive responses are still determined by general goals derived from their organic plan of life : they actively reach out for one kind of good and reject another . Some of the selections that the organism ...
... creatures : even their most passive responses are still determined by general goals derived from their organic plan of life : they actively reach out for one kind of good and reject another . Some of the selections that the organism ...
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... creatures and receiving life from them . Love is ego- centric and partial until it can also embrace all the dumb creatures who unconsciously participate in the wider scheme of life , until it be- stows itself on those who will never ...
... creatures and receiving life from them . Love is ego- centric and partial until it can also embrace all the dumb creatures who unconsciously participate in the wider scheme of life , until it be- stows itself on those who will never ...
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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