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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... single institution or a single set of events for the full explanation of our present condition . All social phenomena , almost without ex- ception , are the result of a multitude of converging and interacting events ; and therefore to ...
... single institution or a single set of events for the full explanation of our present condition . All social phenomena , almost without ex- ception , are the result of a multitude of converging and interacting events ; and therefore to ...
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... single lifetime contains it ; no single culture can encompass all its potentialities . One cannot even partly understand the nature of man , unless one realizes that its roots lie buried in the debris of countless invisible lives and ...
... single lifetime contains it ; no single culture can encompass all its potentialities . One cannot even partly understand the nature of man , unless one realizes that its roots lie buried in the debris of countless invisible lives and ...
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... single narrow skill , men were content , not merely to become frag- ments of men , but to become fragments of fragments : the physician ceased to deal with the body as a whole and looked after a single organ , indeed , even in Dr Oliver ...
... single narrow skill , men were content , not merely to become frag- ments of men , but to become fragments of fragments : the physician ceased to deal with the body as a whole and looked after a single organ , indeed , even in Dr Oliver ...
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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