The Conduct of LifeSecker & Warburg, 1952 - 342 pages |
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... man . Nature is nature as brought forth and interpreted by man's culture ; and culture even in its most evanes- cent and ethereal aspects is still the culture of nature : the energies and vitalities man finds himself endowed with and ...
... man . Nature is nature as brought forth and interpreted by man's culture ; and culture even in its most evanes- cent and ethereal aspects is still the culture of nature : the energies and vitalities man finds himself endowed with and ...
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... man's outer mastery . On this hypothesis , man's irrationality perhaps contributed as much to his departures from animal conformity as his mother - wit : it was man's nervous apprehensions that gave his mind its peculiar bent and set ...
... man's outer mastery . On this hypothesis , man's irrationality perhaps contributed as much to his departures from animal conformity as his mother - wit : it was man's nervous apprehensions that gave his mind its peculiar bent and set ...
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... man's subjective life , are no less integral a part of man's existence than the natural world and the ingenious instru- ments he has devised for mastering it . In other words , the dream is no mere mechanism of escape , but the ...
... man's subjective life , are no less integral a part of man's existence than the natural world and the ingenious instru- ments he has devised for mastering it . In other words , the dream is no mere mechanism of escape , but the ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
Canvass of Possibilities | 5 |
Diagnosis of Our Times | 11 |
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achieved action activities animal balance become biological biological type bring Buddhism capable capacity Captain Ahab century Christian civilization concept consciousness cosmic create creative creature culture death detachment dionysian discipline disintegration divine doctrine dominant drama dream dynamic equilibrium effort elements emergence energy environment essential ethical evil existence experience external fact forces functions further goal growth habits Henri Bergson Herman Melville higher Hindu Hinduism human personality ical ideal impulses inner insight interpretation invention isolationism language 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 primitive produce purpose rational religion renewal response role romanticism sacrifice Schweitzer seek self-fabrication sense single social society Socrates spirit super-ego survival symbols teleology tion Toynbee transformation universal values whole York