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 196
... dionysian , and the buddhist components in all religions . From the familiar example of Christianity , the Buddhist element seems to most people the specifically religious one : the attitude of detachment from earthly life , leading to ...
... dionysian , and the buddhist components in all religions . From the familiar example of Christianity , the Buddhist element seems to most people the specifically religious one : the attitude of detachment from earthly life , leading to ...
Page 198
... dionysian elements for the same reason that the utilitarian Gradgrinds of the nineteenth century , who built Birminghams and Manchesters where even children were given no chance to play , despised the frivolous idlers of the British ...
... dionysian elements for the same reason that the utilitarian Gradgrinds of the nineteenth century , who built Birminghams and Manchesters where even children were given no chance to play , despised the frivolous idlers of the British ...
Page 201
... dionysian interest in sexual expression ; and these two move- ments led to the recovery and expansion of Western civilization , after it had reached a lower state of physical depletion than Rome had reached at the end of the fourth ...
... dionysian interest in sexual expression ; and these two move- ments led to the recovery and expansion of Western civilization , after it had reached a lower state of physical depletion than Rome had reached at the end of the fourth ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
2242 | 25 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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