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 15
... creature within has diminished in size in order to accommodate himself to this inimical overgrowth . The contents of modern man's daydreams too closely resemble those of Bloom in Ulysses , filled with the dead tags of newspaper ...
... creature within has diminished in size in order to accommodate himself to this inimical overgrowth . The contents of modern man's daydreams too closely resemble those of Bloom in Ulysses , filled with the dead tags of newspaper ...
Page 31
... creature ; and a sense of life- to - come - projected as heaven and eternity in the older forms of reli- gion - still beckons man on . Here the tritest of proverbs utters the profoundest of truths : while there is life there is hope ...
... creature ; and a sense of life- to - come - projected as heaven and eternity in the older forms of reli- gion - still beckons man on . Here the tritest of proverbs utters the profoundest of truths : while there is life there is hope ...
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... creature has come within sight of man in the arts of symbolic communication . Mainly through language man has created a second world , more durable and viable than the immediate flux of experience , more rich in possibilities than the ...
... creature has come within sight of man in the arts of symbolic communication . Mainly through language man has created a second world , more durable and viable than the immediate flux of experience , more rich in possibilities than the ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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achieved action activities animal balance become biological biological type bring Buddhism capable capacity century Christian civilization concept consciousness cosmic create creative creature culture death detachment dionysian discipline disintegration divine doctrine dominant drama dream dynamic equilibrium effort elements emergence energy environment essential ethical evil existence experience external fact forces functions further goal growth habits Herman Melville higher Hindu Hinduism human personality ical ideal impulses inner insight interpretation invention isolationism 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 primitive produce psychodrama purpose rational religion religious renewal response role romanticism sacrifice Schweitzer seek self-fabrication sense single Singular Points social society Socrates spirit super-ego survival symbols teleology tion totalitarian Toynbee transformation universal values whole York