The Conduct of LifeSecker & Warburg, 1952 - 342 pages |
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Page 142
... functions to ensure their fullest contribution to the whole proc- ess of growth ; but not to allow them to usurp the place of the higher functions or to disrupt the whole . Any special attention one may pay to the lower functions - as ...
... functions to ensure their fullest contribution to the whole proc- ess of growth ; but not to allow them to usurp the place of the higher functions or to disrupt the whole . Any special attention one may pay to the lower functions - as ...
Page 143
... functions , which is the condition for all truly human develop- ment , is not for the sake of suppressing the lower functions , but of using them more fully for ends that they themselves cannot encom- pass ; for choices that , left to ...
... functions , which is the condition for all truly human develop- ment , is not for the sake of suppressing the lower functions , but of using them more fully for ends that they themselves cannot encom- pass ; for choices that , left to ...
Page 144
... functions to a guiding purpose : in fine , toward the creation of a mean- ingful and valuable world . The slightest impairment of activity in the forebrain , either through drugs or overt injury , first destroys the sym- bolic functions ...
... functions to a guiding purpose : in fine , toward the creation of a mean- ingful and valuable world . The slightest impairment of activity in the forebrain , either through drugs or overt injury , first destroys the sym- bolic functions ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF | 92 |
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