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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... society . Third alternative : But today another course opens : this is compar- able to that which opened in Rome in the fifth century A.D. when the Christian Church laid the basis in faith and thought and practice for a new society ...
... society . Third alternative : But today another course opens : this is compar- able to that which opened in Rome in the fifth century A.D. when the Christian Church laid the basis in faith and thought and practice for a new society ...
Page 107
... society becomes possible . This but repeats , in a more decisive and transcendent fashion , a natural process that is con- stantly at work in some degree in every human group and tribe and nation . The imitation of that example provides ...
... society becomes possible . This but repeats , in a more decisive and transcendent fashion , a natural process that is con- stantly at work in some degree in every human group and tribe and nation . The imitation of that example provides ...
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... society whose values are still opera- tive , the bad man knows that he defies society and his own better na- ture when he robs or kills or rapes : sometimes he even courts punish- ment after the act , because part of his self still ...
... society whose values are still opera- tive , the bad man knows that he defies society and his own better na- ture when he robs or kills or rapes : sometimes he even courts punish- ment after the act , because part of his self still ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
The Emergence of the Divine | 68 |
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