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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... biological inheritance , and a socially acquired na- ture , shaped by his history and his culture , not least by his aspira- tions and anticipations . Apart from earliest infancy man's original nature never becomes visible except as it ...
... biological inheritance , and a socially acquired na- ture , shaped by his history and his culture , not least by his aspira- tions and anticipations . Apart from earliest infancy man's original nature never becomes visible except as it ...
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... biological plan of life by creating , through his culture , a social ritual and a drama , formed by his own special needs and conforming to his own emerging purposes . This new drama was , perhaps , a natural result of the increasing ...
... biological plan of life by creating , through his culture , a social ritual and a drama , formed by his own special needs and conforming to his own emerging purposes . This new drama was , perhaps , a natural result of the increasing ...
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... biological in- heritance . Long discredited in conventional scientific circles , because it explains the " simple " in terms of the complex , it will probably rank as a primitive classic in the organic science that is still to emerge ...
... biological in- heritance . Long discredited in conventional scientific circles , because it explains the " simple " in terms of the complex , it will probably rank as a primitive classic in the organic science that is still to emerge ...
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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