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 5
... potentialities of life to fulfill . The heroes of the old drama , proud , self - willed , formidable men , aggressive in action , isolationist in thought , will become the clowns and villains in the new ; and those who were once cast ...
... potentialities of life to fulfill . The heroes of the old drama , proud , self - willed , formidable men , aggressive in action , isolationist in thought , will become the clowns and villains in the new ; and those who were once cast ...
Page 74
... potentialities for freedom and creation are always at work , in some degree , in every community . But their intervention is so rare that , when they decisively come forth and work their special transformation , they set human history ...
... potentialities for freedom and creation are always at work , in some degree , in every community . But their intervention is so rare that , when they decisively come forth and work their special transformation , they set human history ...
Page 186
... potentialities have been so generally developed that each person could , as it were , change places with any other person and still carry on his life and work : a general life - efficiency more than compensated for the special ...
... potentialities have been so generally developed that each person could , as it were , change places with any other person and still carry on his life and work : a general life - efficiency more than compensated for the special ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
The Emergence of the Divine | 68 |
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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 ethics 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