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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... final significance of his life lay . Or is man a being chained to an eternal cycle of recurrence , in which he slowly , with many backslidings , climbs upward in the ladder of being ? Does he live in a world where by pious observances ...
... final significance of his life lay . Or is man a being chained to an eternal cycle of recurrence , in which he slowly , with many backslidings , climbs upward in the ladder of being ? Does he live in a world where by pious observances ...
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... final causes are merely fabrications of men . " During the last three centuries that attitude became ingrained among men of science ; but Spinoza's dismissal , for all that , was more than a little specious , be- cause there is a great ...
... final causes are merely fabrications of men . " During the last three centuries that attitude became ingrained among men of science ; but Spinoza's dismissal , for all that , was more than a little specious , be- cause there is a great ...
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... final pages of the final essay . Janet , Paul ( Alexandre René ) : Final Causes . Edinburgh : 1878 . One of the best nineteenth century discussions , which won the approbation of such a keen thinker as Professor Robert Flint , who wrote ...
... final pages of the final essay . Janet , Paul ( Alexandre René ) : Final Causes . Edinburgh : 1878 . One of the best nineteenth century discussions , which won the approbation of such a keen thinker as Professor Robert Flint , who wrote ...
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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