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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... merely substitute for the small detectable errors of misused speech the colossal error of rejecting the greater part of man's subjectivity , because it comes to us primarily in symbols of a non - operational order : symbols that have as ...
... merely substitute for the small detectable errors of misused speech the colossal error of rejecting the greater part of man's subjectivity , because it comes to us primarily in symbols of a non - operational order : symbols that have as ...
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... mere existentialist . But what the existentialist , in horror and despair , finds lacking in the world , is merely what is lacking in his philosophy . Once one throws over sym- bols and essences as Captain Ahab threw over compass and ...
... mere existentialist . But what the existentialist , in horror and despair , finds lacking in the world , is merely what is lacking in his philosophy . Once one throws over sym- bols and essences as Captain Ahab threw over compass and ...
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... merely because it is advertised , use no invention merely because it has been put on the market , follow no practice merely be- cause it is fashionable . We must approach every part of our lives with the spirit in which Thoreau ...
... merely because it is advertised , use no invention merely because it has been put on the market , follow no practice merely be- cause it is fashionable . We must approach every part of our lives with the spirit in which Thoreau ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
The Emergence of the Divine | 68 |
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