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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... least resistance ; nor will it come by ef- fecting a succession of small , unco - ordinated , day - to - day modifications and reforms : it involves nothing less than a change in the total pattern of life , working simultaneously ...
... least resistance ; nor will it come by ef- fecting a succession of small , unco - ordinated , day - to - day modifications and reforms : it involves nothing less than a change in the total pattern of life , working simultaneously ...
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... least , like Islam , shows identic characteristics to Christianity . The second assumption , however , is open to challenge on grounds common both to Toynbee's philosophy and to one that contradicts it . For the fact is that few of the ...
... least , like Islam , shows identic characteristics to Christianity . The second assumption , however , is open to challenge on grounds common both to Toynbee's philosophy and to one that contradicts it . For the fact is that few of the ...
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... least morally neutral , unless some higher goal is definable . Now man is not merely the unfinished but the self - fabricating ani- mal . What other organisms do by purely organic means , in and through the structure of their own bodies ...
... least morally neutral , unless some higher goal is definable . Now man is not merely the unfinished but the self - fabricating ani- mal . What other organisms do by purely organic means , in and through the structure of their own bodies ...
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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