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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... practice tyranny and com- pulsion in the most wanton fashion must nevertheless do so under the slogan of ... practices , lies such an abundance of life as no commonwealth or empire , however powerful , ever possessed . But this ...
... practice tyranny and com- pulsion in the most wanton fashion must nevertheless do so under the slogan of ... practices , lies such an abundance of life as no commonwealth or empire , however powerful , ever possessed . But this ...
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... practice for a new society . Out of the immense vitalities of our present civilization , a dynamic integration and ... practices will in time be transfused through every part of the commu- nity . Such a change does not come about purely ...
... practice for a new society . Out of the immense vitalities of our present civilization , a dynamic integration and ... practices will in time be transfused through every part of the commu- nity . Such a change does not come about purely ...
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... practice of sacrifice and the discipline of detachment can man accept , without overwhelming despair , the facts of his own cor- ruptibility and death . When man has not schooled himself by such practices , when he fosters in himself ...
... practice of sacrifice and the discipline of detachment can man accept , without overwhelming despair , the facts of his own cor- ruptibility and death . When man has not schooled himself by such practices , when he fosters in himself ...
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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