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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... capacity so little as two horsepower : along that line , he might have taken half a million years to effect , by selective breeding or otherwise , this tremendous change in his muscu- lar capacity . And when he had done so , he would ...
... capacity so little as two horsepower : along that line , he might have taken half a million years to effect , by selective breeding or otherwise , this tremendous change in his muscu- lar capacity . And when he had done so , he would ...
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... capacity to use language , an earlier human invention , the whole round earth would fade away more swiftly than Prospero's vision : insubstantial and dreamlike , without the words that arrest it and order it into widening patches of ...
... capacity to use language , an earlier human invention , the whole round earth would fade away more swiftly than Prospero's vision : insubstantial and dreamlike , without the words that arrest it and order it into widening patches of ...
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... capacity for struggle or divert them from their practical goals . By various combinations of these fundamental attitudes , one arrives at the almost inexhaustible richness and variety of human society , in which pure types are an ...
... capacity for struggle or divert them from their practical goals . By various combinations of these fundamental attitudes , one arrives at the almost inexhaustible richness and variety of human society , in which pure types are an ...
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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