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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... action , similarly capable of self - sacrificing personal effort , neither the Republican nor the Democratic parties would have lapsed so quickly into an improvident belligerence or a pusillanimous isolationism — both based on a ...
... action , similarly capable of self - sacrificing personal effort , neither the Republican nor the Democratic parties would have lapsed so quickly into an improvident belligerence or a pusillanimous isolationism — both based on a ...
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... action , the lines , and the plot , man interprets a larger range of phenomena than he could by any system of limited observation : he takes it in not merely as spectator but as participant : as playwright , manager , and scene ...
... action , the lines , and the plot , man interprets a larger range of phenomena than he could by any system of limited observation : he takes it in not merely as spectator but as participant : as playwright , manager , and scene ...
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... ACTION The Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt predicted that the corrup- tions and weaknesses already observable in Western civilization by the middle of the nineteenth century would result in the coming of the Terrible Simplifiers ...
... ACTION The Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt predicted that the corrup- tions and weaknesses already observable in Western civilization by the middle of the nineteenth century would result in the coming of the Terrible Simplifiers ...
Table des matières
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