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 169
... moments that life seems irradiated in every direction : moments detached from all prepar- atory activity or further result , moments so intensely good in them- selves , so complete , so all - satisfying that neither further emergence ...
... moments that life seems irradiated in every direction : moments detached from all prepar- atory activity or further result , moments so intensely good in them- selves , so complete , so all - satisfying that neither further emergence ...
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... moments and the negative , inhibitive , nay . saying moments . Man's constant re - shaping of himself , his community , his habitat , does not lead to any final state of equilibrium . Even the notion of self- perfection implies the ...
... moments and the negative , inhibitive , nay . saying moments . Man's constant re - shaping of himself , his community , his habitat , does not lead to any final state of equilibrium . Even the notion of self- perfection implies the ...
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... moments of negation and detachment : moments of elation and engagement , and moments of desolation and disengage- ment : while between them there stand out moments of activistic strug- gle , to which both plus and minus signs may be ...
... moments of negation and detachment : moments of elation and engagement , and moments of desolation and disengage- ment : while between them there stand out moments of activistic strug- gle , to which both plus and minus signs may be ...
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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