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 143
... direction . Freedom for man in large part is an effort to escape the age - old stereotypes of his lower functions and to exercise constant choice and discrimination : what applies in the personality applies also in the community . In no ...
... direction . Freedom for man in large part is an effort to escape the age - old stereotypes of his lower functions and to exercise constant choice and discrimination : what applies in the personality applies also in the community . In no ...
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... direction , a disordered life will result . Who in our time has not witnessed and participated in this disorder ? -often with a false feeling of emancipation and pride , coming directly from the fact that we had overthrown old rules and ...
... direction , a disordered life will result . Who in our time has not witnessed and participated in this disorder ? -often with a false feeling of emancipation and pride , coming directly from the fact that we had overthrown old rules and ...
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... direction or outer direction , detachment or con- formity , should never become so exclusive that in practice they make a shift from one to the other impossible . None of the existing categories of philosophy , none of the present ...
... direction or outer direction , detachment or con- formity , should never become so exclusive that in practice they make a shift from one to the other impossible . None of the existing categories of philosophy , none of the present ...
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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