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 153
... produce maimings and deaths , by wres- tling matches and boxing bouts in which brutality is far more visible than sportsman - like skill , in concentration on more lethal weapons of war , instead of on measures that would produce co ...
... produce maimings and deaths , by wres- tling matches and boxing bouts in which brutality is far more visible than sportsman - like skill , in concentration on more lethal weapons of war , instead of on measures that would produce co ...
Page 191
... produce synthesis in thought , any more than an assemblage of specialized functionaries within a community will produce a whole and balanced society . Such mechanical cohesion , whether promoted arbitrarily by the state or through more ...
... produce synthesis in thought , any more than an assemblage of specialized functionaries within a community will produce a whole and balanced society . Such mechanical cohesion , whether promoted arbitrarily by the state or through more ...
Page 228
... produce an effect out of all proportion to its physical powers , just as a tiny seed - crystal , dropped into a saturate solution , may cause the whole mass to assume a similar crystalline form . Such timely intervention of a " physical ...
... produce an effect out of all proportion to its physical powers , just as a tiny seed - crystal , dropped into a saturate solution , may cause the whole mass to assume a similar crystalline form . Such timely intervention of a " physical ...
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