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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... emergence , creative- ness , and the domain of necessity . In short , before modern man can live a sane life he must escape his present ideological straitjackets . Each one of us sees the world through a screen : the screen of his ...
... emergence , creative- ness , and the domain of necessity . In short , before modern man can live a sane life he must escape his present ideological straitjackets . Each one of us sees the world through a screen : the screen of his ...
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Lewis Mumford. 3 : THE EMERGENCE OF THE DIVINE Because of the narrow time - limits of his own life , it is natural that man should think of the universe itself as having a beginning and an end . Too easily , he ... Emergence of the Divine 3.
Lewis Mumford. 3 : THE EMERGENCE OF THE DIVINE Because of the narrow time - limits of his own life , it is natural that man should think of the universe itself as having a beginning and an end . Too easily , he ... Emergence of the Divine 3.
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Lewis Mumford. spirit , and prevents the emergence of the divine . Not sin but indiffer- ence , not erroneous knowledge , but skepticism , are the chief aids of the destroyer . The concepts of growth , emergence , and transcendence take ...
Lewis Mumford. spirit , and prevents the emergence of the divine . Not sin but indiffer- ence , not erroneous knowledge , but skepticism , are the chief aids of the destroyer . The concepts of growth , emergence , and transcendence take ...
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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