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 47
... dream than we do of the origins of language . But we can speculate on the special role of the dream , in order to find perhaps a faint clue to later devel- opments . Given what we know of man's organic equipment and present traits and ...
... dream than we do of the origins of language . But we can speculate on the special role of the dream , in order to find perhaps a faint clue to later devel- opments . Given what we know of man's organic equipment and present traits and ...
Page 49
... dream , because nothing is in- credible , the dream enlarges the domain of human potentialities : the territory that is so reclaimed can in time be cultivated during the waking life . The fact that dream - images normally recur with the ...
... dream , because nothing is in- credible , the dream enlarges the domain of human potentialities : the territory that is so reclaimed can in time be cultivated during the waking life . The fact that dream - images normally recur with the ...
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... dreaming . So retarding was man's dream consciousness , so easily did it lend itself to perver- sion , that Dr A. L. Kroeber has properly taken , as a definite indica- tion of human progress , the transformation of the infantile ...
... dreaming . So retarding was man's dream consciousness , so easily did it lend itself to perver- sion , that Dr A. L. Kroeber has properly taken , as a definite indica- tion of human progress , the transformation of the infantile ...
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 conscious 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