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 68
... divine seed that is buried in the earth in the dying year and resurrected with the awakening of the vegetation in the spring . In one aspect , God is unpicturable fathomless immensity , the nameless one ; and in another , he becomes ...
... divine seed that is buried in the earth in the dying year and resurrected with the awakening of the vegetation in the spring . In one aspect , God is unpicturable fathomless immensity , the nameless one ; and in another , he becomes ...
Page 71
... divine purpose actually presided over all the occasions of human life . Plainly , if there is a loving God he must be impotent : but if he is omnipotent , truly responsible for all that happens within his domain , capable of heeding ...
... divine purpose actually presided over all the occasions of human life . Plainly , if there is a loving God he must be impotent : but if he is omnipotent , truly responsible for all that happens within his domain , capable of heeding ...
Page 324
... Divine Comedy , The , 119 Divine , Emergence of the , 68-76 Divine , historic sense of the , 68 revelation , 69 Divinity , 242 Division of Labor , 37 , 270 Doctrine of Singular Points , 227 Doctrine of the Whole , 223-226 Doctrines ...
... Divine Comedy , The , 119 Divine , Emergence of the , 68-76 Divine , historic sense of the , 68 revelation , 69 Divinity , 242 Division of Labor , 37 , 270 Doctrine of Singular Points , 227 Doctrine of the Whole , 223-226 Doctrines ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
2242 | 25 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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achieved action active 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 ethical evil existence experience external fact forces functions further goal growth habits Herman Melville higher Hindu Hinduism human personality ideal impulses inner insight interpretation 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 potentialities practice present present philosophy produce promethean psychodrama purpose religion renewal response role romanticism Schweitzer seek self-fabricating sense single Singular Points social society Socrates spirit super-ego symbols teleology tion Toynbee transformation unity universal values whole world government York