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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... environment , but with a multitude of other organisms . Living organisms , by the most complex and far- reaching operations , form food - chains and work - chains that extend from the bacteria in the soil and the air to the domesticated ...
... environment , but with a multitude of other organisms . Living organisms , by the most complex and far- reaching operations , form food - chains and work - chains that extend from the bacteria in the soil and the air to the domesticated ...
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... environment may become an active element in his culture ; and so of himself . By the same token , any part of himself may become operative in the external world : no single aspect of either personality or culture has any under ...
... environment may become an active element in his culture ; and so of himself . By the same token , any part of himself may become operative in the external world : no single aspect of either personality or culture has any under ...
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... environment : the land- scape of his daily life envelops his fantasy . If he suffers from heat , like the tribes of the desert , his Hell will be an eternity of fire and brimstone : if he gets lost in exploring the limestone caves of ...
... environment : the land- scape of his daily life envelops his fantasy . If he suffers from heat , like the tribes of the desert , his Hell will be an eternity of fire and brimstone : if he gets lost in exploring the limestone caves of ...
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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