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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... totalitarian and quasi - totalitarian governments . The handsomest encomium for such creatures is : " They do not make trouble . " Their highest virtue is : " They do not stick their necks out . " Ultimately , such a society pro- duces ...
... totalitarian and quasi - totalitarian governments . The handsomest encomium for such creatures is : " They do not make trouble . " Their highest virtue is : " They do not stick their necks out . " Ultimately , such a society pro- duces ...
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... totalitarian countries today , the sense of being the healthy exponents of a new form of life . This is but a momentary illusion . The totalitarian drug is as fatal as the infection it arrests . Thus the inertia of " progress " today ...
... totalitarian countries today , the sense of being the healthy exponents of a new form of life . This is but a momentary illusion . The totalitarian drug is as fatal as the infection it arrests . Thus the inertia of " progress " today ...
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... — a doctrine based on purpose alone might , like totalitarian communism , subordinate all immediate personal goods to the ultimate distant goal . C By over - emphasis of a purely compensatory after - 138 THE CONDUCT OF LIFE.
... — a doctrine based on purpose alone might , like totalitarian communism , subordinate all immediate personal goods to the ultimate distant goal . C By over - emphasis of a purely compensatory after - 138 THE CONDUCT OF LIFE.
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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