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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... activities results in the defacement of beauty , the misappropriation of truth , the miscar- riage of justice , the perversion of goodness . This potential god , in other words , has a devil in him ; his worst suspicions about the ...
... activities results in the defacement of beauty , the misappropriation of truth , the miscar- riage of justice , the perversion of goodness . This potential god , in other words , has a devil in him ; his worst suspicions about the ...
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... activities , we have accepted this depletion , staleness , emptiness : so that even in our amusements , we make a ritual of mechanical repetition - the very condition that menaces freedom , spontaneity , growth . As our inner selves ...
... activities , we have accepted this depletion , staleness , emptiness : so that even in our amusements , we make a ritual of mechanical repetition - the very condition that menaces freedom , spontaneity , growth . As our inner selves ...
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... activities , bed - making , cooking , dish - wash- ing , cleaning , provide a certain amount of manual labor , bread labor , as Tolstoy called it , essential for a balanced life . Such daily work largely does away with the necessity for ...
... activities , bed - making , cooking , dish - wash- ing , cleaning , provide a certain amount of manual labor , bread labor , as Tolstoy called it , essential for a balanced life . Such daily work largely does away with the necessity for ...
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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