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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... . Long before mind became dominant , life gave itself over to the end- less magic of metamorphosis : its own self - transformation . To create scales or feathers or skin or fur , to transform ORIENTATION TO LIFE 27 3: The Background of ...
... . Long before mind became dominant , life gave itself over to the end- less magic of metamorphosis : its own self - transformation . To create scales or feathers or skin or fur , to transform ORIENTATION TO LIFE 27 3: The Background of ...
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... limits that once existed on the food supply , the birth - rate , the amount of power a single individual could exercise or detonate . As a result , the control of quantity has become one of the dominant 146 THE CONDUCT OF LIFE.
... limits that once existed on the food supply , the birth - rate , the amount of power a single individual could exercise or detonate . As a result , the control of quantity has become one of the dominant 146 THE CONDUCT OF LIFE.
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... dominant symptom of the spiritual life , but the vomit itself is prized as life's essential product : the ultimate reality in all its sour denial . Short of this final rejection of life , in anything but a physiological sense , each ...
... dominant symptom of the spiritual life , but the vomit itself is prized as life's essential product : the ultimate reality in all its sour denial . Short of this final rejection of life , in anything but a physiological sense , each ...
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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