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 71
... reason and justice . If the God who permitted the slaughter of the innocent in the Lisbon earthquake shocked Voltaire , what would he have said to the God who permitted his creatures to invent the insane horrors of Buchenwald and ...
... reason and justice . If the God who permitted the slaughter of the innocent in the Lisbon earthquake shocked Voltaire , what would he have said to the God who permitted his creatures to invent the insane horrors of Buchenwald and ...
Page 208
... reason of its own ignorance , superstition , and brutality did . violence to the human spirit . Hence Schweitzer decided , like many another fervent Christian , to become a missionary . But since nothing could be more ironic than to ...
... reason of its own ignorance , superstition , and brutality did . violence to the human spirit . Hence Schweitzer decided , like many another fervent Christian , to become a missionary . But since nothing could be more ironic than to ...
Page 246
... reason and positive knowledge , it also falls short of assessing the heights that are possible , by reason of propulsive ener- gies also drawn largely from the unconscious , in the very teeth of cold - blooded reason : energies that ...
... reason and positive knowledge , it also falls short of assessing the heights that are possible , by reason of propulsive ener- gies also drawn largely from the unconscious , in the very teeth of cold - blooded reason : energies that ...
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