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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... living thing depends not merely upon outside pressure but upon inner , self - maintaining , self - restoring , and self - ful- filling processes . The blow of a hammer will leave a dent on a piece of lead : if the solid lump is melted ...
... living thing depends not merely upon outside pressure but upon inner , self - maintaining , self - restoring , and self - ful- filling processes . The blow of a hammer will leave a dent on a piece of lead : if the solid lump is melted ...
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... living sweetens and deepens the first . Now life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation , and without being allowed the preliminary trials , the failures and botches , that are essential for the training of ...
... living sweetens and deepens the first . Now life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation , and without being allowed the preliminary trials , the failures and botches , that are essential for the training of ...
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... Living . 2 vols . The School of Living : Suffern , New York : 1948 . Attempt to work out in systematic detail the precepts of the philosophy first expressed , as criticism , in This Ugly Civilization : decentralism , household economy ...
... Living . 2 vols . The School of Living : Suffern , New York : 1948 . Attempt to work out in systematic detail the precepts of the philosophy first expressed , as criticism , in This Ugly Civilization : decentralism , household economy ...
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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