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. |
À l'intérieur du livre
Résultats 1-3 sur 10
Page 40
... self - fabricating animal : the only creature who has not rested content with his biological form or with the dumb repetitions of his animal role . The chief source of this particular form of creativity was not fire , tools , weapons ...
... self - fabricating animal : the only creature who has not rested content with his biological form or with the dumb repetitions of his animal role . The chief source of this particular form of creativity was not fire , tools , weapons ...
Page 121
... self - fabricating ani- mal . What other organisms do by purely organic means , in and through the structure of their own bodies , man does by extra - organic means , sometimes within his lifetime , or at least within a few centuries ...
... self - fabricating ani- mal . What other organisms do by purely organic means , in and through the structure of their own bodies , man does by extra - organic means , sometimes within his lifetime , or at least within a few centuries ...
Page 319
... self - fabricating , 40 needs , 31 psychology , 108 understanding , 86 Animals , brainy , 36 warm - blooded , 27 Anthropology , 40 , 192 Antisthenes , 101 Ants , example of the , 186 Anxiety , reasons for , 47 Aphrodite , visceral , 194 ...
... self - fabricating , 40 needs , 31 psychology , 108 understanding , 86 Animals , brainy , 36 warm - blooded , 27 Anthropology , 40 , 192 Antisthenes , 101 Ants , example of the , 186 Anxiety , reasons for , 47 Aphrodite , visceral , 194 ...
Table des matières
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
The Emergence of the Divine | 68 |
Droits d'auteur | |
32 autres sections non affichées
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Expressions et termes fréquents
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