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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... man . Nature is nature as brought forth and interpreted by man's culture ; and culture even in its most evanes- cent and ethereal aspects is still the culture of nature : the energies and vitalities man finds himself endowed with and ...
... man . Nature is nature as brought forth and interpreted by man's culture ; and culture even in its most evanes- cent and ethereal aspects is still the culture of nature : the energies and vitalities man finds himself endowed with and ...
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... man's subjective life , are no less integral a part of man's existence than the natural world and the ingenious instru- ments he has devised for mastering it . In other words , the dream is no mere mechanism of escape , but the ...
... man's subjective life , are no less integral a part of man's existence than the natural world and the ingenious instru- ments he has devised for mastering it . In other words , the dream is no mere mechanism of escape , but the ...
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... man's life is held to be no more than the grass that is shoved into the oven and burned . Man's biological survival , we know now , is actually involved in cosmic processes and prospers best when some sense of a cosmic pur- pose attends ...
... man's life is held to be no more than the grass that is shoved into the oven and burned . Man's biological survival , we know now , is actually involved in cosmic processes and prospers best when some sense of a cosmic pur- pose attends ...
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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