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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Page 63
... death ; and is he thereby condemned , in his battle against death , to work by the sweat of his brow , laboring ere the night cometh , instead of growing serenely like the lily of the fields ? Does man's nature , then , partake both of ...
... death ; and is he thereby condemned , in his battle against death , to work by the sweat of his brow , laboring ere the night cometh , instead of growing serenely like the lily of the fields ? Does man's nature , then , partake both of ...
Page 80
... death even before their life reaches its natural terminus . Long before Socrates observed that the task of philosophy is to prepare one for death , religion made this its chief concern . Not merely did the early religious cults care for ...
... death even before their life reaches its natural terminus . Long before Socrates observed that the task of philosophy is to prepare one for death , religion made this its chief concern . Not merely did the early religious cults care for ...
Page 81
... death of one's beloved - all recurrent events in human exist- ence . Death comes to every household . No Shakespearean apothecary , no unctuous mortician in the Hollywood style , can heal those ills . Often the worst of these evils have ...
... death of one's beloved - all recurrent events in human exist- ence . Death comes to every household . No Shakespearean apothecary , no unctuous mortician in the Hollywood style , can heal those ills . Often the worst of these evils have ...
Table des matières
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