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 29
... essential attri- butes of higher organisms . Continuity and emergence greet one every- where . The shape of any living thing depends not merely upon outside pressure but upon inner , self - maintaining , self - restoring , and self ...
... essential attri- butes of higher organisms . Continuity and emergence greet one every- where . The shape of any living thing depends not merely upon outside pressure but upon inner , self - maintaining , self - restoring , and self ...
Page 155
... essential aim is to further life ; and this means something more than the capacity for ethical evaluations and acts . Here lies the mistake of all pharisee- ism and to some extent one of the recurrent errors of religion itself . The ...
... essential aim is to further life ; and this means something more than the capacity for ethical evaluations and acts . Here lies the mistake of all pharisee- ism and to some extent one of the recurrent errors of religion itself . The ...
Page 251
... essential to the cultivation of that kind of humility out of which effective co - operation and mutual aid are born : it is the anti- dote to self - righteousness , to excessive self - esteem , to arrogant self- assertion . All this is ...
... essential to the cultivation of that kind of humility out of which effective co - operation and mutual aid are born : it is the anti- dote to self - righteousness , to excessive self - esteem , to arrogant self- assertion . All this is ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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