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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... comes through abstraction and symbolic reference : in fact , the symbolic medium - verbal , musical , graphic - is the very one in which man , as man , lives and moves and has his being . The invention of the symbol was not merely the ...
... comes through abstraction and symbolic reference : in fact , the symbolic medium - verbal , musical , graphic - is the very one in which man , as man , lives and moves and has his being . The invention of the symbol was not merely the ...
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... comes to an end . Spengler , using the simplest but most deceptive of analogies , suggested that all cul- tures went through the cycle of the seasons : forgetting that , if he took his figure seriously , he would have to account for the ...
... comes to an end . Spengler , using the simplest but most deceptive of analogies , suggested that all cul- tures went through the cycle of the seasons : forgetting that , if he took his figure seriously , he would have to account for the ...
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... come , but we must still be seeking ? " That wise passiveness in which the soul lies open to whatever forces from any ... comes back to them , one would guess , with a better perspective and a serener grasp . Reflection , daydreaming ...
... come , but we must still be seeking ? " That wise passiveness in which the soul lies open to whatever forces from any ... comes back to them , one would guess , with a better perspective and a serener grasp . Reflection , daydreaming ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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