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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... become pro- gressively more constrained , as external pressures become more per- vasive and overbearing . In the end , as Samuel Butler satirically prophesied , man may become just a machine's contrivance for repro- ducing another ...
... become pro- gressively more constrained , as external pressures become more per- vasive and overbearing . In the end , as Samuel Butler satirically prophesied , man may become just a machine's contrivance for repro- ducing another ...
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... become a police state : witness the ominous growth and ubiquitous pressure of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States : an agency whose operations are immune to public scrutiny and may presently , like those of its ...
... become a police state : witness the ominous growth and ubiquitous pressure of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States : an agency whose operations are immune to public scrutiny and may presently , like those of its ...
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... become sluggish and automatic in their behavior , incapable of making fresh decisions like persons , just to the ... become effective at every level : in the family and the neighbor- hood at one pole , and in a world government ...
... become sluggish and automatic in their behavior , incapable of making fresh decisions like persons , just to the ... become effective at every level : in the family and the neighbor- hood at one pole , and in a world government ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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achieved action activities animal balance become biological biological type bring Buddhism capable capacity century Christian civilization concept consciousness cosmic create creative creature culture death detachment dionysian discipline disintegration divine doctrine dominant drama dream dynamic equilibrium effort elements emergence energy environment essential ethical evil existence experience external fact forces functions further goal growth habits Herman Melville higher Hindu Hinduism human personality ical ideal impulses inner insight interpretation invention isolationism 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 primitive produce psychodrama purpose rational religion religious renewal response role romanticism sacrifice Schweitzer seek self-fabrication sense single Singular Points social society Socrates spirit super-ego survival symbols teleology tion totalitarian Toynbee transformation universal values whole York