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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... biological survival , we know now , is actually involved in cosmic processes and prospers best when some sense of a cosmic pur- pose attends his daily activities . Man's positive knowledge of these processes and purposes is but a film ...
... biological survival , we know now , is actually involved in cosmic processes and prospers best when some sense of a cosmic pur- pose attends his daily activities . Man's positive knowledge of these processes and purposes is but a film ...
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... biological inheritance , and a socially acquired na- ture , shaped by his history and his culture , not least by his aspira- tions and anticipations . Apart from earliest infancy man's original nature never becomes visible except as it ...
... biological inheritance , and a socially acquired na- ture , shaped by his history and his culture , not least by his aspira- tions and anticipations . Apart from earliest infancy man's original nature never becomes visible except as it ...
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... biological in- heritance . Long discredited in conventional scientific circles , because it explains the " simple " in terms of the complex , it will probably rank as a primitive classic in the organic science that is still to emerge ...
... biological in- heritance . Long discredited in conventional scientific circles , because it explains the " simple " in terms of the complex , it will probably rank as a primitive classic in the organic science that is still to emerge ...
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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