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 77
... individual life is thus counterpoised by a cult of the after - life : a life whose quality is supposedly determined , at the day of judgment , by the character of one's behavior on earth . In this version , developed further by ...
... individual life is thus counterpoised by a cult of the after - life : a life whose quality is supposedly determined , at the day of judgment , by the character of one's behavior on earth . In this version , developed further by ...
Page 189
... individual does so by mini- mizing the actual influences and pressures that are at work in his life , and by voiding a large part of their significance . Profound transfor- mations may and do take place first in the individual person ...
... individual does so by mini- mizing the actual influences and pressures that are at work in his life , and by voiding a large part of their significance . Profound transfor- mations may and do take place first in the individual person ...
Page 206
... individual act , setting at nought the established patterns of commercial activity by its renunciation of profit , its sacrifice of even a minimum normal compensation , testified to an unconditional com- mitment to the ideal of world ...
... individual act , setting at nought the established patterns of commercial activity by its renunciation of profit , its sacrifice of even a minimum normal compensation , testified to an unconditional com- mitment to the ideal of world ...
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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