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 77
... individual life is thus counterpoised by a cult of the after - life : a life whose quality is supposedly determined , at the day of judgment , by the character of one's behavior on earth . In this version , developed further by ...
... individual life is thus counterpoised by a cult of the after - life : a life whose quality is supposedly determined , at the day of judgment , by the character of one's behavior on earth . In this version , developed further by ...
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... individual episode a new significance , making it part of an indefinitely prolonged hereafter . The religious cycle of time is a cosmic cycle : it embraces centuries , millennia , eons . That telescopic view both diminishes the claims ...
... individual episode a new significance , making it part of an indefinitely prolonged hereafter . The religious cycle of time is a cosmic cycle : it embraces centuries , millennia , eons . That telescopic view both diminishes the claims ...
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... individual act , setting at nought the established patterns of commercial activity by its renunciation of profit , its sacrifice of even a minimum normal compensation , testified to an unconditional com- mitment to the ideal of world ...
... individual act , setting at nought the established patterns of commercial activity by its renunciation of profit , its sacrifice of even a minimum normal compensation , testified to an unconditional com- mitment to the ideal of world ...
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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