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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... renewal : for each of us has a new part to master , a new role to enact , a new personality to shape , and new potentialities of life to fulfill . The heroes of the old drama , proud , self - willed , formidable men , aggressive in ...
... renewal : for each of us has a new part to master , a new role to enact , a new personality to shape , and new potentialities of life to fulfill . The heroes of the old drama , proud , self - willed , formidable men , aggressive in ...
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... . The fanatic Marxist who characterizes members of the bourgeoisie as vermin , like the Nazi who so characterized the Jews and the Poles , finds it easy to take the 152 THE CONDUCT OF LIFE 2: Conditions for Moral Renewal.
... . The fanatic Marxist who characterizes members of the bourgeoisie as vermin , like the Nazi who so characterized the Jews and the Poles , finds it easy to take the 152 THE CONDUCT OF LIFE 2: Conditions for Moral Renewal.
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... renewal comes a third movement that must not be under - rated , for it now constitutes an active recessive , if not a dominant , in most parts of Western civili- zation . This one may call eutopianism : the belief in the possibility of ...
... renewal comes a third movement that must not be under - rated , for it now constitutes an active recessive , if not a dominant , in most parts of Western civili- zation . This one may call eutopianism : the belief in the possibility of ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
2242 | 25 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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