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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Page 66
... 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 that supports him as the skin on a glass of warm milk ...
... 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 that supports him as the skin on a glass of warm milk ...
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... cosmic solitude and the frustrating brevity of man's life . Even now these ends are difficult to approach by pure speculation ; and no wonder : could the earliest one - celled or- ganism anticipate the eventual emergence of a multi ...
... cosmic solitude and the frustrating brevity of man's life . Even now these ends are difficult to approach by pure speculation ; and no wonder : could the earliest one - celled or- ganism anticipate the eventual emergence of a multi ...
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... cosmic cycle : it embraces centuries , millennia , eons . That telescopic view both diminishes the claims of the individual moment and enlarges its ultimate significance . Such a view contrasts with the sacrilegious American jibe ...
... cosmic cycle : it embraces centuries , millennia , eons . That telescopic view both diminishes the claims of the individual moment and enlarges its ultimate significance . Such a view contrasts with the sacrilegious American jibe ...
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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