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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... positive science , which disdains even to place a picture within its boundaries . Partiality and persistent error in a field of genuine interest are more active paths to truth than indifference . 2 : THE MYTHOLOGIES OF MAN Man has told ...
... positive science , which disdains even to place a picture within its boundaries . Partiality and persistent error in a field of genuine interest are more active paths to truth than indifference . 2 : THE MYTHOLOGIES OF MAN Man has told ...
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... positive pole , particularly on the descending curve of life . This part of life must be faced and embraced too : an arduous discipline . By the time men reach middle age , even the seemingly fortunate have some inkling of this ...
... positive pole , particularly on the descending curve of life . This part of life must be faced and embraced too : an arduous discipline . By the time men reach middle age , even the seemingly fortunate have some inkling of this ...
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... positive evil . That change , as we know , brought compensations that other coun- tries , which shrank collectively from making the same choice , did not share . The high morale of Britain after the war , with its equable sys- tem of ...
... positive evil . That change , as we know , brought compensations that other coun- tries , which shrank collectively from making the same choice , did not share . The high morale of Britain after the war , with its equable sys- tem 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