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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... effort to ward off Russian domination . In America the forces of re- action , already utilizing irresponsible , slander and legal coercion to silence rational opposition , may easily , under the rabid leadership of privileged Senatorial ...
... effort to ward off Russian domination . In America the forces of re- action , already utilizing irresponsible , slander and legal coercion to silence rational opposition , may easily , under the rabid leadership of privileged Senatorial ...
Page 107
... efforts . The process of arriving at this unanimity is no simple one : it demands effort . But the result of that effort is to replace regional , tribal , and national differences , which set men apart , with a sense of their common ...
... efforts . The process of arriving at this unanimity is no simple one : it demands effort . But the result of that effort is to replace regional , tribal , and national differences , which set men apart , with a sense of their common ...
Page 251
... effort toward self - transformation in per- son and group , the forces that now threaten to barbarize or exterminate ... effort is man's self - transformation . All our ceaseless daily efforts to carry forward civilization will ...
... effort toward self - transformation in per- son and group , the forces that now threaten to barbarize or exterminate ... effort is man's self - transformation . All our ceaseless daily efforts to carry forward civilization will ...
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