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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Finally , one associates the new concept with the emergence of a sociology and a philosophy capable of doing justice to every aspect of human life , the inner and the outer , the individuated and the associated , the symbolic and the ...
Finally , one associates the new concept with the emergence of a sociology and a philosophy capable of doing justice to every aspect of human life , the inner and the outer , the individuated and the associated , the symbolic and the ...
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In a less private language than Process and Reality , and still one of the best expositions of Whitehead's philosophy , though some of the logical weakness of the concept of mechanism applies also to his concept of organism , which is ...
In a less private language than Process and Reality , and still one of the best expositions of Whitehead's philosophy , though some of the logical weakness of the concept of mechanism applies also to his concept of organism , which is ...
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Attempt to develop a unitary philosophy capable of embracing all phenomena ; but by founding it on the Heraclitean concept of process and change the author fails to do justice to the static and " eternal " aspects of experience ; and is ...
Attempt to develop a unitary philosophy capable of embracing all phenomena ; but by founding it on the Heraclitean concept of process and change the author fails to do justice to the static and " eternal " aspects of experience ; and is ...
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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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