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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... biological one it would no doubt have been extremely slow and limited in all its possibilities . Suppose , for example , man had concentrated upon in- creasing his individual working capacity so little as two horsepower : along that ...
... biological one it would no doubt have been extremely slow and limited in all its possibilities . Suppose , for example , man had concentrated upon in- creasing his individual working capacity so little as two horsepower : along that ...
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... biological survival , we know now , is actually involved in cosmic processes and prospers best when some sense of a cosmic pur- pose attends his daily activities . Man's positive knowledge of these processes and purposes is but a film ...
... biological survival , we know now , is actually involved in cosmic processes and prospers best when some sense of a cosmic pur- pose attends his daily activities . Man's positive knowledge of these processes and purposes is but a film ...
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... biological plan of life by creating , through his culture , a social ritual and a drama , formed by his own special needs and conforming to his own emerging purposes . This new drama was , perhaps , a natural result of the increasing ...
... biological plan of life by creating , through his culture , a social ritual and a drama , formed by his own special needs and conforming to his own emerging purposes . This new drama was , perhaps , a natural result of the increasing ...
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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