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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... give a closer image of reality than no picture at all . Granted that man overestimates his powers and over - values his own organs : granted that he often gives too absolute a value to his individual life and its prolongation : granted ...
... give a closer image of reality than no picture at all . Granted that man overestimates his powers and over - values his own organs : granted that he often gives too absolute a value to his individual life and its prolongation : granted ...
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... give you half of his last dollar or one of his last two cigarettes . An American civilian finds it hard to lend you half of his surplus . " These men , facing death daily , knew that " you can't take it with you . " Only the ...
... give you half of his last dollar or one of his last two cigarettes . An American civilian finds it hard to lend you half of his surplus . " These men , facing death daily , knew that " you can't take it with you . " Only the ...
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... give up in sheer despair . The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives , but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression . In some respects , education gives us a foretaste of life and a ...
... give up in sheer despair . The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives , but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression . In some respects , education gives us a foretaste of life and a ...
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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