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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... essential attri- butes of higher organisms . Continuity and emergence greet one every- where . The shape of any living thing depends not merely upon outside pressure but upon inner , self - maintaining , self - restoring , and self ...
... essential attri- butes of higher organisms . Continuity and emergence greet one every- where . The shape of any living thing depends not merely upon outside pressure but upon inner , self - maintaining , self - restoring , and self ...
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... essential key to the truly human . When words fail him , as we find in the few authenticated cases of wild children reared without the benefit of human society , man is an animal without a specific life- plan , compelled to imitate the ...
... essential key to the truly human . When words fail him , as we find in the few authenticated cases of wild children reared without the benefit of human society , man is an animal without a specific life- plan , compelled to imitate the ...
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... essential aim is to further life ; and this means something more than the capacity for ethical evaluations and acts . Here lies the mistake of all pharisee- ism and to some extent one of the recurrent errors of religion itself . The ...
... essential aim is to further life ; and this means something more than the capacity for ethical evaluations and acts . Here lies the mistake of all pharisee- ism and to some extent one of the recurrent errors of religion itself . 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