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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Page 124
... growth , crisis , and transcendence . And tempting though it may be to do so , one must not confuse the good with what is socially acceptable , or that which promotes the adjustment of the self to the group or the community ...
... growth , crisis , and transcendence . And tempting though it may be to do so , one must not confuse the good with what is socially acceptable , or that which promotes the adjustment of the self to the group or the community ...
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... growth , and all purposeless growth must produce death . By the same token , a purpose that reaches beyond any immediate satisfaction and gives direction to the whole course of life , or that even spans the lives of successive ...
... growth , and all purposeless growth must produce death . By the same token , a purpose that reaches beyond any immediate satisfaction and gives direction to the whole course of life , or that even spans the lives of successive ...
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... growth is to come forth . In some sense pain and organic disharmony and psychological con- flict , so far from being wholly deplorable accidents , are among the requisites for development : for growth is a state of unbalance on the way ...
... growth is to come forth . In some sense pain and organic disharmony and psychological con- flict , so far from being wholly deplorable accidents , are among the requisites for development : for growth is a state of unbalance on the way ...
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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