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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It was through the social division of labor - a further transference to culture of the original division of labor between the sexes - that man unearthed many obscure inchoate capacities and brought them to perfection .
It was through the social division of labor - a further transference to culture of the original division of labor between the sexes - that man unearthed many obscure inchoate capacities and brought them to perfection .
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But man's capacity for misusing verbalization is no reason for devaluing the function itself . The various contemporary reactions against the full employment of language , from da - daism to logical positivism , will not in the least ...
But man's capacity for misusing verbalization is no reason for devaluing the function itself . The various contemporary reactions against the full employment of language , from da - daism to logical positivism , will not in the least ...
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But far - sightedness is necessary in order to do justice to immediate goods in their proper order and to anticipate their probable consequences : the moral bankruptcy of Neville Chamberlain and the moral capacity of Winston Churchill ...
But far - sightedness is necessary in order to do justice to immediate goods in their proper order and to anticipate their probable consequences : the moral bankruptcy of Neville Chamberlain and the moral capacity of Winston Churchill ...
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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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