The Conduct of LifeSecker & Warburg, 1952 - 342 pages |
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Page 30
... energy calls for continuous ef- fort . There is indeed a sort of dialectic opposition , throughout all crea- tion , between the tendency to fall into a state of stability and immo- bility , and the tendency to climb upward , to seize ...
... energy calls for continuous ef- fort . There is indeed a sort of dialectic opposition , throughout all crea- tion , between the tendency to fall into a state of stability and immo- bility , and the tendency to climb upward , to seize ...
Page 34
... energy not devoted wholly to the struggle for survival . This margin , observable in the most primitive culture , is also visible in man's physiological organization ; and its existence there offers a key to no small part of his ...
... energy not devoted wholly to the struggle for survival . This margin , observable in the most primitive culture , is also visible in man's physiological organization ; and its existence there offers a key to no small part of his ...
Page 240
... energy and time devoted to travel and intercourse on a world scale , and interchange of workers and students between regions now ingrown , suspicious , and hostile through their isolationism . To supplement a universalism based on mere ...
... energy and time devoted to travel and intercourse on a world scale , and interchange of workers and students between regions now ingrown , suspicious , and hostile through their isolationism . To supplement a universalism based on mere ...
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