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 234
... attempt to strip life to its essentials : this tendency only carried further an affiliated movement in the historic religions . Though one of the effects of science was to close men's minds to religion , another was to give religion a ...
... attempt to strip life to its essentials : this tendency only carried further an affiliated movement in the historic religions . Though one of the effects of science was to close men's minds to religion , another was to give religion a ...
Page 312
... attempt at unification . Santayana , George : Realms of Being . New York : 1942 . One - volume edition of The Realm of Essence , The Realm of Matter , The Realm of Truth and the Realm of Spirit : in some ways the philosophic equivalent ...
... attempt at unification . Santayana , George : Realms of Being . New York : 1942 . One - volume edition of The Realm of Essence , The Realm of Matter , The Realm of Truth and the Realm of Spirit : in some ways the philosophic equivalent ...
Page 314
... Attempt at detailed prescription for overcoming the present disintegration of Western civilization . Full of loose thinking , slipshod generalization , and pseudo - statistical proof , and lacking in an adequate methodology ; yet its ...
... Attempt at detailed prescription for overcoming the present disintegration of Western civilization . Full of loose thinking , slipshod generalization , and pseudo - statistical proof , and lacking in an adequate methodology ; yet its ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
2242 | 25 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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