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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... death , rather than animal survival , as both heroes and martyrs have often done , valuing life intensely , but valuing the god life has brought forth even more . Religion develops out of this faith in the meaningfulness of human ...
... death , rather than animal survival , as both heroes and martyrs have often done , valuing life intensely , but valuing the god life has brought forth even more . Religion develops out of this faith in the meaningfulness of human ...
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... death even before their life reaches its natural terminus . Long before Socrates observed that the task of philosophy is to prepare one for death , religion made this its chief concern . Not merely did the early religious cults care for ...
... death even before their life reaches its natural terminus . Long before Socrates observed that the task of philosophy is to prepare one for death , religion made this its chief concern . Not merely did the early religious cults care for ...
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... death of one's beloved - all recurrent events in human exist- ence . Death comes to every household . No Shakespearean apothecary , no unctuous mortician in the Hollywood style , can heal those ills . Often the worst of these evils have ...
... death of one's beloved - all recurrent events in human exist- ence . Death comes to every household . No Shakespearean apothecary , no unctuous mortician in the Hollywood style , can heal those ills . Often the worst of these evils have ...
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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