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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... past and its geographic and cultural environment , without any allowance for the fact that at man's level the future , the imagined and projected future , is hardly less effectively operative . We accept the past's drag : we reject the ...
... past and its geographic and cultural environment , without any allowance for the fact that at man's level the future , the imagined and projected future , is hardly less effectively operative . We accept the past's drag : we reject the ...
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... past insight and its historic forms of conversion , be capable of trans- forming peoples that are now only nominally Christian and a world that is predominantly non - Christian ? The earlier transformation that Christianity actually ...
... past insight and its historic forms of conversion , be capable of trans- forming peoples that are now only nominally Christian and a world that is predominantly non - Christian ? The earlier transformation that Christianity actually ...
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... past : that causal mechanisms operate in organisms precisely by being attached to goals . At the human level , hope , aspiration , plan and design modify the impact of past events and serve in some meas- ure to order their further ...
... past : that causal mechanisms operate in organisms precisely by being attached to goals . At the human level , hope , aspiration , plan and design modify the impact of past events and serve in some meas- ure to order their further ...
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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