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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... result of our very ingenuity in inventing reproductive and manifolding devices , even the economy of a stable ... results : a surfeit of tasks , interests , stimuli , reactions : an absence of valuable order and purpose . In the end ...
... result of our very ingenuity in inventing reproductive and manifolding devices , even the economy of a stable ... results : a surfeit of tasks , interests , stimuli , reactions : an absence of valuable order and purpose . In the end ...
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... results of their " disin- terested " activity in a last moment of remorseful panic - about the social destination of ... result in a fatal extinction of the human , and a final terminus to further development . Here , rather than in the ...
... results of their " disin- terested " activity in a last moment of remorseful panic - about the social destination of ... result in a fatal extinction of the human , and a final terminus to further development . Here , rather than in the ...
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... result , man lacks the necessary parallels in his own life to aid his understanding . This weakness holds particularly in our own time , whose pride it is to hasten all natural processes . But the builders who designed the cathedrals at ...
... result , man lacks the necessary parallels in his own life to aid his understanding . This weakness holds particularly in our own time , whose pride it is to hasten all natural processes . But the builders who designed the cathedrals at ...
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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