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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... knowledge and his consciousness nothing ? Does their rarity , as one sweeps over the whole range of cosmic forces and events , make them less precious or less significant ? If his god is but the enlargement by thousands of diameters of ...
... knowledge and his consciousness nothing ? Does their rarity , as one sweeps over the whole range of cosmic forces and events , make them less precious or less significant ? If his god is but the enlargement by thousands of diameters of ...
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... knowledge in itself does not automatically produce vir- tue : that there is a tendency in all people , including Socrates , to reject as irrelevant , indeed , as non - existent , those forms of self - knowledge that would lame their ...
... knowledge in itself does not automatically produce vir- tue : that there is a tendency in all people , including Socrates , to reject as irrelevant , indeed , as non - existent , those forms of self - knowledge that would lame their ...
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... knowledge , by reason of its very triumphs , promotes . The effect of self - inquisition should enable one to understand one- self and to do justice to oneself : that is , to correct one's blind drives , to overcome one's partialities ...
... knowledge , by reason of its very triumphs , promotes . The effect of self - inquisition should enable one to understand one- self and to do justice to oneself : that is , to correct one's blind drives , to overcome one's partialities ...
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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