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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... become pro- gressively more constrained , as external pressures become more per- vasive and overbearing . In the end , as Samuel Butler satirically prophesied , man may become just a machine's contrivance for repro- ducing another ...
... become pro- gressively more constrained , as external pressures become more per- vasive and overbearing . In the end , as Samuel Butler satirically prophesied , man may become just a machine's contrivance for repro- ducing another ...
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... become an almost self - con- tained world , set apart from each other little self - contained world . So dearly won are the achievements of culture , that , once a departure has been made , it tends for long periods to become sacrosanct ...
... become an almost self - con- tained world , set apart from each other little self - contained world . So dearly won are the achievements of culture , that , once a departure has been made , it tends for long periods to become sacrosanct ...
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... become significant through their relation to the whole . In a disintegrating one , even great ambitions and plans seem insignificant , because a living sense of the whole has disappeared . At that moment , speech becomes da - da : once ...
... become significant through their relation to the whole . In a disintegrating one , even great ambitions and plans seem insignificant , because a living sense of the whole has disappeared . At that moment , speech becomes da - da : once ...
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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