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 68
... divine seed that is buried in the earth in the dying year and resurrected with the awakening of the vegetation in the spring . In one aspect , God is unpicturable fathomless immensity , the nameless one ; and in another , he becomes ...
... divine seed that is buried in the earth in the dying year and resurrected with the awakening of the vegetation in the spring . In one aspect , God is unpicturable fathomless immensity , the nameless one ; and in another , he becomes ...
Page 71
... divine purpose actually presided over all the occasions of human life . Plainly , if there is a loving God he must be impotent : but if he is omnipotent , truly responsible for all that happens within his domain , capable of heeding ...
... divine purpose actually presided over all the occasions of human life . Plainly , if there is a loving God he must be impotent : but if he is omnipotent , truly responsible for all that happens within his domain , capable of heeding ...
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... divine . In the light of the eventual destination , even earlier steps in development , hitherto mean- ingless or valueless , even insensate and irrational , become through this divine foreboding more significant . Begotten in the human ...
... divine . In the light of the eventual destination , even earlier steps in development , hitherto mean- ingless or valueless , even insensate and irrational , become through this divine foreboding more significant . Begotten in the human ...
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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