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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... Buddhism had a simple prescription : fetter the senses , curb one's animal impulses , reduce all forms of craving ! By drying up life at its source , one lessens the daily flow of misery . This is the doctrine of total sacrifice : the ...
... Buddhism had a simple prescription : fetter the senses , curb one's animal impulses , reduce all forms of craving ! By drying up life at its source , one lessens the daily flow of misery . This is the doctrine of total sacrifice : the ...
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... buddhist components in all religions . From the familiar example of Christianity , the Buddhist element seems to most people the specifically religious one : the attitude of detachment from earthly life , leading to withdrawal ...
... buddhist components in all religions . From the familiar example of Christianity , the Buddhist element seems to most people the specifically religious one : the attitude of detachment from earthly life , leading to withdrawal ...
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... Buddhist , and the Promethean are always with us : indeed , if they have their roots in the constitution of the body ... Buddhism itself , for example , would seem free from any ideal propensity to transform the environ- ment by the ...
... Buddhist , and the Promethean are always with us : indeed , if they have their roots in the constitution of the body ... Buddhism itself , for example , would seem free from any ideal propensity to transform the environ- ment by the ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
ORIENTATION TO LIFE | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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achieved action active animal become biological type bring Buddhist capable capacity century Christian civilization concept conscious cosmic create creative creatures culture death detachment dionysian discipline disintegration divine doctrine dominant drama dream dynamic dynamic equilibrium effect effort elements emergence essential ethical evil existence experience external fact forces functions further goal growth habits Herman Melville higher Hindu human personality ical ideal impulses inner insight interpretation isolationism lack life's 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 produce promethean psychodrama purpose religion renewal response role romanticism routine Schweitzer seek self-fabricating sense single Singular Points social society Socrates spirit super-ego symbols teleology tion totalitarian Toynbee transformation universal values whole world government York