The Conduct of LifeSecker & Warburg, 1952 - 342 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 25
Page 78
... significance , making it part of an indefinitely prolonged hereafter . The religious cycle of time is a cosmic cycle : it embraces centuries , millennia , eons . That telescopic view both diminishes the claims of the individual moment ...
... significance , making it part of an indefinitely prolonged hereafter . The religious cycle of time is a cosmic cycle : it embraces centuries , millennia , eons . That telescopic view both diminishes the claims of the individual moment ...
Page 80
... its final negation , death itself , and affirms as real and significant that which seems to deny the reality of life and destroy its significance . Man needs no special schooling to embrace life , when 80 THE CONDUCT OF LIFE.
... its final negation , death itself , and affirms as real and significant that which seems to deny the reality of life and destroy its significance . Man needs no special schooling to embrace life , when 80 THE CONDUCT OF LIFE.
Page 81
... significance . By bringing death consciously back into daily life , the religious mind gives a positive role to the most dismaying conditions in man's existence . Here is the essential explanation , I believe , of religion's apparently ...
... significance . By bringing death consciously back into daily life , the religious mind gives a positive role to the most dismaying conditions in man's existence . Here is the essential explanation , I believe , of religion's apparently ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF | 92 |
Copyright | |
32 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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