The Conduct of LifeHarcourt, Brace, 1951 - 342 pages Discusses the ultimate ethical and religious issues that confront modern man and offers a new orientation, directed to the renewal of life and the reintegration of modern civilization. |
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Page 126
... action . Take the simplest case , the need for food : common to all animals . If that need halted in man at the instinctual level , it would remain like even more pressing needs , those for air and water - too peremptory to be a source ...
... action . Take the simplest case , the need for food : common to all animals . If that need halted in man at the instinctual level , it would remain like even more pressing needs , those for air and water - too peremptory to be a source ...
Page 218
... action , the lines , and the plot , man interprets a larger range of phenomena than he could by any system of limited observation : he takes it in not merely as spectator but as participant : as playwright , manager , and scene ...
... action , the lines , and the plot , man interprets a larger range of phenomena than he could by any system of limited observation : he takes it in not merely as spectator but as participant : as playwright , manager , and scene ...
Page 268
... ACTION The Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt predicted that the corrup- tions and weaknesses already observable in Western civilization by the middle of the nineteenth century would result in the coming of the Terrible Simplifiers ...
... ACTION The Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt predicted that the corrup- tions and weaknesses already observable in Western civilization by the middle of the nineteenth century would result in the coming of the Terrible Simplifiers ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
2242 | 25 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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