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 101
... ideas of renunciation and otherworldly fulfillment of a supernal kind were already visible in the fifth century mystery cults : baptism , initiation , conversion , all were practiced ; and the believer was " saved " by these practices ...
... ideas of renunciation and otherworldly fulfillment of a supernal kind were already visible in the fifth century mystery cults : baptism , initiation , conversion , all were practiced ; and the believer was " saved " by these practices ...
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... ideas , to speak with candor , he is not one of the greatest luminaries . But his intuitions are better integrated than his reasons ; and the transformation effected in the life and work of Schweitzer is more profound and more widely ...
... ideas , to speak with candor , he is not one of the greatest luminaries . But his intuitions are better integrated than his reasons ; and the transformation effected in the life and work of Schweitzer is more profound and more widely ...
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... ideas , de - polarized and freed from the pat- tern that can no longer use them , become re - united around a new or ganizing idea : the farther the disintegration has gone , the wider is the area on which the new idea can draw for ...
... ideas , de - polarized and freed from the pat- tern that can no longer use them , become re - united around a new or ganizing idea : the farther the disintegration has gone , the wider is the area on which the new idea can draw for ...
Table des matières
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