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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Now both Confucius and Aristotle were aware of the need for quantitative discrimination as one of the chief components of an active mode of ethics : both the Greeks and the Chinese observed the doctrine of the Golden Mean : they were ...
Now both Confucius and Aristotle were aware of the need for quantitative discrimination as one of the chief components of an active mode of ethics : both the Greeks and the Chinese observed the doctrine of the Golden Mean : they were ...
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Or finally , is there something ambiguous in their character , which neither the doctrine of absolutism nor the doctrine of relativism sufficiently acknowledges ? I put off this question for later discussion in order to deal with still ...
Or finally , is there something ambiguous in their character , which neither the doctrine of absolutism nor the doctrine of relativism sufficiently acknowledges ? I put off this question for later discussion in order to deal with still ...
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The field for transformation is not this or that particular institution , but our whole society : that is why only a doctrine of the whole , which rests on the dynamic intervention of the human person in every stage of the process ...
The field for transformation is not this or that particular institution , but our whole society : that is why only a doctrine of the whole , which rests on the dynamic intervention of the human person in every stage of the process ...
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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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