The Conduct of LifeSecker & Warburg, 1952 - 342 pages |
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Page 97
... 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 itself must be prepared for an ...
... 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 itself must be prepared for an ...
Page 148
... complete barbarism ? " Actually , our age now hovers on the verge of that abyss : part of our society has already plunged into it ; and the condition of man therefore calls for radical improvement . Unless that improvement touches every ...
... complete barbarism ? " Actually , our age now hovers on the verge of that abyss : part of our society has already plunged into it ; and the condition of man therefore calls for radical improvement . Unless that improvement touches every ...
Page 229
... complete of all observable phenomena , since every other kind of force and event can be mirrored in it and interpreted by it ; and we must pay particular attention to those kinds of events that are not patent in the more stable and ...
... complete of all observable phenomena , since every other kind of force and event can be mirrored in it and interpreted by it ; and we must pay particular attention to those kinds of events that are not patent in the more stable and ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF | 92 |
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achieved action activities animal become biological type body bring Buddhism capable capacity century Christian civilization concept consciousness cosmic create creative creatures culture death detachment dionysian discipline disintegration divine doctrine dominant drama dream dynamic dynamic equilibrium effect effort elements emergence essential ethics evil existence experience external fact forces functions further goal growth habits Herman Melville higher Hindu Hinduism human personality ideal impulses inner insight interpretation invention 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 practice present present philosophy produce promethean psychodrama purpose religion renewal response role romanticism Schweitzer seek self-fabricating sense single Singular Points social society Socrates spiritual super-ego symbols teleology tion Toynbee transformation unity universal values whole world government York