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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... transformation has not yet been widely achieved , though it has been the major effort of the classic religions for the last three thousand years . Let us look at this process more closely ; for it has long resisted interpretation : even ...
... transformation has not yet been widely achieved , though it has been the major effort of the classic religions for the last three thousand years . Let us look at this process more closely ; for it has long resisted interpretation : even ...
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... transformation occur within the span of an individual life - a person detaches himself from the community . He ... TRANSFORMATIONS OF MAN 95.
... transformation occur within the span of an individual life - a person detaches himself from the community . He ... TRANSFORMATIONS OF MAN 95.
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... transformation takes place in complete isolation , as one must assume that it often does , the chances will be against the survival of either the person or the new way of life . For its successful establishment the human community ...
... transformation takes place in complete isolation , as one must assume that it often does , the chances will be against the survival of either the person or the new way of life . For its successful establishment the human community ...
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