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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Page 80
... follow the ex- tension of what was at first the special privilege of immortality from the Pharaoh , as the first real person , and a manifestation of his god , to his court favorites , and finally , by a steady process of extension to ...
... follow the ex- tension of what was at first the special privilege of immortality from the Pharaoh , as the first real person , and a manifestation of his god , to his court favorites , and finally , by a steady process of extension to ...
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... follow its customs on penalty of severe punishment , sometimes even death : its taboos , however irrational , are inviolate , and its gods , how- ever brutal , are unchallengeable . In so far as this community has a mind , it is a ...
... follow its customs on penalty of severe punishment , sometimes even death : its taboos , however irrational , are inviolate , and its gods , how- ever brutal , are unchallengeable . In so far as this community has a mind , it is a ...
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... follow customs and frame laws that regulate social relations , in order to make conduct predictable , instead of wholly erratic and self - willed ; to respect symbols and con- serve values ; to refrain from murder , violence , and theft ...
... follow customs and frame laws that regulate social relations , in order to make conduct predictable , instead of wholly erratic and self - willed ; to respect symbols and con- serve values ; to refrain from murder , violence , and theft ...
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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