The Conduct of LifeSecker & Warburg, 1952 - 342 pages |
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Page 94
... transformation has not yet been widely achieved , though it has been the major effort of the classic religions for the last three thousand years . Let us look at this process more closely ; for it has long resisted interpretation : even ...
... transformation has not yet been widely achieved , though it has been the major effort of the classic religions for the last three thousand years . Let us look at this process more closely ; for it has long resisted interpretation : even ...
Page 97
... transformation takes place in 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 ...
... transformation takes place in 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 ...
Page 224
... transformation is not this or that particular institution , but our whole society : that is why only a doctrine of the whole , which rests on the dynamic intervention of the human person in every stage of the process , will be capable ...
... transformation is not this or that particular institution , but our whole society : that is why only a doctrine of the whole , which rests on the dynamic intervention of the human person in every stage of the process , will be capable ...
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