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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... effort to ward off Russian domination . In America the forces of re- action , already utilizing irresponsible slander and legal coercion to silence rational opposition , may easily , under the rabid leadership of privileged Senatorial ...
... effort to ward off Russian domination . In America the forces of re- action , already utilizing irresponsible slander and legal coercion to silence rational opposition , may easily , under the rabid leadership of privileged Senatorial ...
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... efforts . The process of arriving at this unanimity is no simple one : it demands effort . But the result of that effort is to replace regional , tribal , and national differences , which set men apart , with a sense of their common ...
... efforts . The process of arriving at this unanimity is no simple one : it demands effort . But the result of that effort is to replace regional , tribal , and national differences , which set men apart , with a sense of their common ...
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... effort toward self - transformation in per- son and group , the forces that now threaten to barbarize or exterminate ... effort is man's self - transformation . All our ceaseless daily efforts to carry forward civilization will fail ...
... effort toward self - transformation in per- son and group , the forces that now threaten to barbarize or exterminate ... effort is man's self - transformation . All our ceaseless daily efforts to carry forward civilization will fail ...
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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