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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... essential attri- butes of higher organisms . Continuity and emergence greet one every- where . The shape of any living thing depends not merely upon outside pressure but upon inner , self - maintaining , self - restoring , and self ...
... essential attri- butes of higher organisms . Continuity and emergence greet one every- where . The shape of any living thing depends not merely upon outside pressure but upon inner , self - maintaining , self - restoring , and self ...
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... essential basis for ethical development : indeed the basis of any sound education . In future , the school that neglects to provide teaching and guidance in these departments will be recognized as even more deeply defective than one ...
... essential basis for ethical development : indeed the basis of any sound education . In future , the school that neglects to provide teaching and guidance in these departments will be recognized as even more deeply defective than one ...
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... essential to the cultivation of that kind of humility out of which effective co - operation and mutual aid are born : it is the anti- dote to self - righteousness , to excessive self - esteem , to arrogant self- assertion . All this is ...
... essential to the cultivation of that kind of humility out of which effective co - operation and mutual aid are born : it is the anti- dote to self - righteousness , to excessive self - esteem , to arrogant self- assertion . All this is ...
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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