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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... Patrick Geddes called the insurgent quality of life , its capacity for initiating new activities and going off in unexpected directions in order to overcome its inner limi- tations and external handicaps is almost as characteristic as ...
... Patrick Geddes called the insurgent quality of life , its capacity for initiating new activities and going off in unexpected directions in order to overcome its inner limi- tations and external handicaps is almost as characteristic as ...
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... Patrick Geddes , spending ten of the best years of his life in India , ex- ploring its living resources and planning its cities in consonance with its own mode of life : Gandhi , breaking down caste lines that are even more inviolate ...
... Patrick Geddes , spending ten of the best years of his life in India , ex- ploring its living resources and planning its cities in consonance with its own mode of life : Gandhi , breaking down caste lines that are even more inviolate ...
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... Patrick Geddes , showed such powers in recent times on the theoretic side as Gandhi , Wilson , Lenin , and Churchill did in action . If the process of de - personalization went on indefinitely modern man would give up all possibility of ...
... Patrick Geddes , showed such powers in recent times on the theoretic side as Gandhi , Wilson , Lenin , and Churchill did in action . If the process of de - personalization went on indefinitely modern man would give up all possibility of ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
The Emergence of the Divine | 68 |
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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 ethics 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