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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... consciousness nothing ? Does their rarity , as one sweeps over the whole range of cosmic forces and events , make them ... conscious knowledge of any single generation cannot be compared for trustworthiness with the funded experience ...
... consciousness nothing ? Does their rarity , as one sweeps over the whole range of cosmic forces and events , make them ... conscious knowledge of any single generation cannot be compared for trustworthiness with the funded experience ...
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... consciousness is a profound sense of the nature and meaning of life in all its dimensions : an intuition of the ... conscious- ness has doubtless superstitiously served many factitious interests and local needs : but it has remained ...
... consciousness is a profound sense of the nature and meaning of life in all its dimensions : an intuition of the ... conscious- ness has doubtless superstitiously served many factitious interests and local needs : but it has remained ...
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... conscious philosophy , even the most impersonal and self - sacrificing acts , like those of the soldiers who fought under the United Nations flag in Korea , will fail of their full effect . From many possible witnesses , in our own age ...
... conscious philosophy , even the most impersonal and self - sacrificing acts , like those of the soldiers who fought under the United Nations flag in Korea , will fail of their full effect . From many possible witnesses , in our own age ...
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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