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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... emergence , creative- ness , and the domain of necessity . In short , before modern man can live a sane life he must escape his present ideological straitjackets . Each one of us sees the world through a screen : the screen of his ...
... emergence , creative- ness , and the domain of necessity . In short , before modern man can live a sane life he must escape his present ideological straitjackets . Each one of us sees the world through a screen : the screen of his ...
Page 169
Lewis Mumford. spirit , and prevents the emergence of the divine . Not sin but indiffer- ence , not erroneous knowledge , but skepticism , are the chief aids of the destroyer . The concepts of growth , emergence , and transcendence take ...
Lewis Mumford. spirit , and prevents the emergence of the divine . Not sin but indiffer- ence , not erroneous knowledge , but skepticism , are the chief aids of the destroyer . The concepts of growth , emergence , and transcendence take ...
Page 324
... 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 , Christian , 25 Dogma , communist ...
... 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 , Christian , 25 Dogma , communist ...
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