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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... potentialities of life to fulfill . The heroes of the old drama , proud , self - willed , formidable men , aggressive in action , isolationist in thought , will become the clowns and villains in the new ; and those who were once cast ...
... potentialities of life to fulfill . The heroes of the old drama , proud , self - willed , formidable men , aggressive in action , isolationist in thought , will become the clowns and villains in the new ; and those who were once cast ...
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... potentialities as well as causes , gives the measure of his ability to transform it . Man , in his full historic dimensions , encloses the primitive and the sophisticated , the infantile and the mature : he takes into himself times past ...
... potentialities as well as causes , gives the measure of his ability to transform it . Man , in his full historic dimensions , encloses the primitive and the sophisticated , the infantile and the mature : he takes into himself times past ...
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... potentialities have been so generally developed that each person could , as it were , change places with any other person and still carry on his life and work : a general life - efficiency more than compensated for the special ...
... potentialities have been so generally developed that each person could , as it were , change places with any other person and still carry on his life and work : a general life - efficiency more than compensated for the special ...
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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