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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... invention . The age of the machine is already over . We cannot save our cun- ning inventions and our complicated apparatus of scientific research unless we save man ; and when we do so , the human person , not the machine , will ...
... invention . The age of the machine is already over . We cannot save our cun- ning inventions and our complicated apparatus of scientific research unless we save man ; and when we do so , the human person , not the machine , will ...
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... invention , operated only at rare intervals and with great slowness : tens of thousands of years passed before the Old Stone Age , with its hunting economy , gave place to the New Stone Age , marked by the domestication of animals and ...
... invention , operated only at rare intervals and with great slowness : tens of thousands of years passed before the Old Stone Age , with its hunting economy , gave place to the New Stone Age , marked by the domestication of animals and ...
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... invention of airplanes and motor cars , the monk , Roger Bacon , predicted these mechanical contrivances : from his knowledge of processes at work in himself , he was able to anticipate " the next development of man . " Glanvill , in ...
... invention of airplanes and motor cars , the monk , Roger Bacon , predicted these mechanical contrivances : from his knowledge of processes at work in himself , he was able to anticipate " the next development of man . " Glanvill , in ...
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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