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 142
... higher functions or to disrupt the whole . Any special attention one may pay to the lower functions as in fortifying the body by hard exercise- must be for the sake of giving more scope to the higher functions . But with reason , the ...
... higher functions or to disrupt the whole . Any special attention one may pay to the lower functions as in fortifying the body by hard exercise- must be for the sake of giving more scope to the higher functions . But with reason , the ...
Page 144
... higher and lower goods ; and that the higher goods are those leading toward , freedom and multiple choices , toward esthetic sensitivity and symbolic interpretation , toward the domination of the parts by the whole and the subordination ...
... higher and lower goods ; and that the higher goods are those leading toward , freedom and multiple choices , toward esthetic sensitivity and symbolic interpretation , toward the domination of the parts by the whole and the subordination ...
Page 162
... higher emergence . The seed must be buried , the husk of the seed must rot , the body must die to its old habits and constraints , if a higher order of growth is to come forth . In some sense pain and organic disharmony and ...
... higher emergence . The seed must be buried , the husk of the seed must rot , the body must die to its old habits and constraints , if a higher order of growth is to come forth . In some sense pain and organic disharmony and ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
The Emergence of the Divine | 68 |
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