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 157
... evil will still beset life , if only because there is a widening discrepancy , as man ad- vances upward in the scale of being , between his own purposes and the lower order of nature . These extraneous forces will threaten man's plans ...
... evil will still beset life , if only because there is a widening discrepancy , as man ad- vances upward in the scale of being , between his own purposes and the lower order of nature . These extraneous forces will threaten man's plans ...
Page 158
... evil is merely a projection of fears and anxieties , and that , by proper psychological therapy , it may be removed from the mind and will therefore have no objective existence . This view was put forward , with no little acumen , by ...
... evil is merely a projection of fears and anxieties , and that , by proper psychological therapy , it may be removed from the mind and will therefore have no objective existence . This view was put forward , with no little acumen , by ...
Page 160
... evil tendencies is not to deny the ob- jective existence of evil or to avoid hating what is hateful and blaming what is blameworthy , but to accept the fact that we have in our own conduct the very tendencies we dislike and see so ...
... evil tendencies is not to deny the ob- jective existence of evil or to avoid hating what is hateful and blaming what is blameworthy , but to accept the fact that we have in our own conduct the very tendencies we dislike and see so ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
2242 | 25 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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