The Conduct of LifeDiscusses 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. -- Publisher's description. |
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Without animal faith in the past that he helped to make and in the future he is still making , human life would shrink in all its dimensions . 3 : THE BACKGROUND Of life In his own person , man represents every aspect of the cosmos .
Without animal faith in the past that he helped to make and in the future he is still making , human life would shrink in all its dimensions . 3 : THE BACKGROUND Of life In his own person , man represents every aspect of the cosmos .
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During the last century this essential fact about man's nature has been obscured by the false assumption that man is primarily a " toolusing animal . " Carlyle called him that long before Bergson suggested that the term Homo Faber ...
During the last century this essential fact about man's nature has been obscured by the false assumption that man is primarily a " toolusing animal . " Carlyle called him that long before Bergson suggested that the term Homo Faber ...
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Does he live in a world where by pious observances of ritual and by progressive spiritual detachment he may ultimately dissociate himself from his animal needs and his exorbitant capacities for pain and misery , concealed even in his ...
Does he live in a world where by pious observances of ritual and by progressive spiritual detachment he may ultimately dissociate himself from his animal needs and his exorbitant capacities for pain and misery , concealed even in his ...
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Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
ORIENTATION TO LIFE | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Conduct of Life Volume 34 of Harvest book Harvest book, HB 34 |
| Author | Lewis Mumford |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace, 1951 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 342 pages |
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