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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... body itself there is a hierarchy of functions , however , and this hierarchic order leaves its imprint on many remoter areas of life . There are , for instance , supernumeraries , like the appendix and tonsils , trusty domestic servants ...
... body itself there is a hierarchy of functions , however , and this hierarchic order leaves its imprint on many remoter areas of life . There are , for instance , supernumeraries , like the appendix and tonsils , trusty domestic servants ...
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... body by hard exercise- must be for the sake of giving more scope to the higher functions . But with reason , the ancient Athenians disparaged the professional ath- lete , whose personality became an appendage to his muscular skill ...
... body by hard exercise- must be for the sake of giving more scope to the higher functions . But with reason , the ancient Athenians disparaged the professional ath- lete , whose personality became an appendage to his muscular skill ...
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... body on the Day of Judgment , than in the gnostic fancy that spirit has no need of matter . To be delivered from the prison of the body , one must assimilate the social ways and spiritual creations of other bodily types and characters ...
... body on the Day of Judgment , than in the gnostic fancy that spirit has no need of matter . To be delivered from the prison of the body , one must assimilate the social ways and spiritual creations of other bodily types and characters ...
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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