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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... primitive man there was far less of a gap between waking conscious- ness and sleeping consciousness than there now is . Against the cur- rent tendency to over - value the externalized and the objective , John Butler Yeats ' words are a ...
... primitive man there was far less of a gap between waking conscious- ness and sleeping consciousness than there now is . Against the cur- rent tendency to over - value the externalized and the objective , John Butler Yeats ' words are a ...
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... primitive and repulsive act , a form of devil worship as Herbert Spen- cer put it : how infantile to offer one's God seasonal fruits and liba- tions , or present one's precious child to the fiery furnace of Moloch ! Those who live , as ...
... primitive and repulsive act , a form of devil worship as Herbert Spen- cer put it : how infantile to offer one's God seasonal fruits and liba- tions , or present one's precious child to the fiery furnace of Moloch ! Those who live , as ...
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... primitive peoples through im- perialist exploitation , often coming on top of a primitive life that in itself , by reason of its own ignorance , superstition , and brutality did . violence to the human spirit . Hence Schweitzer decided ...
... primitive peoples through im- perialist exploitation , often coming on top of a primitive life that in itself , by reason of its own ignorance , superstition , and brutality did . violence to the human spirit . Hence Schweitzer decided ...
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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