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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... continued advance of civilization . The rational con- duct of life , plainly , demands something far different from the auto- matic extension of science and invention . The age of the machine is already over . We cannot save our cun ...
... continued advance of civilization . The rational con- duct of life , plainly , demands something far different from the auto- matic extension of science and invention . The age of the machine is already over . We cannot save our cun ...
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... continued elaborations , which differentiate human behavior from the brutal di- rectness of other animals - though even at lower levels , as in the nest- adorning habits of the bower bird , there may exist some faint early extra ...
... continued elaborations , which differentiate human behavior from the brutal di- rectness of other animals - though even at lower levels , as in the nest- adorning habits of the bower bird , there may exist some faint early extra ...
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... continued existence comes to an end : in man , that irrationality and futility bring about self - destruction . Cancer is , from the standpoint of the organism , prolific but purposeless growth , and all purposeless growth must produce ...
... continued existence comes to an end : in man , that irrationality and futility bring about self - destruction . Cancer is , from the standpoint of the organism , prolific but purposeless growth , and all purposeless growth must produce ...
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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