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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... culture , mainly verbal , esthetic , and ritualistic , outpaced his technical culture . His habit of projection , symbolization , detachment , has enabled man to make many experi- ments whose bad results , if encountered in organic form ...
... culture , mainly verbal , esthetic , and ritualistic , outpaced his technical culture . His habit of projection , symbolization , detachment , has enabled man to make many experi- ments whose bad results , if encountered in organic form ...
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Lewis Mumford. of mankind are few , compared to the differences that exist between cultures : for each culture , even if primitive , tied closely to natural conditions and limited in area , tends to become an almost self - con- tained ...
Lewis Mumford. of mankind are few , compared to the differences that exist between cultures : for each culture , even if primitive , tied closely to natural conditions and limited in area , tends to become an almost self - con- tained ...
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... culture , at the moment the culture itself transforms stereotyped routines into unexpected dramatic actions , rich with new possibilities for life . For over the drama of the higher cultures presides a general guiding theme , a plot ...
... culture , at the moment the culture itself transforms stereotyped routines into unexpected dramatic actions , rich with new possibilities for life . For over the drama of the higher cultures presides a general guiding theme , a plot ...
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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