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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... experience ; whereas simplicity and clarity and order are extremely sophisticated end - products . The classic scientific attempts to picture the world , from Thales onward , confuse conceptual simplicity with the primitive and basic ...
... experience ; whereas simplicity and clarity and order are extremely sophisticated end - products . The classic scientific attempts to picture the world , from Thales onward , confuse conceptual simplicity with the primitive and basic ...
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... experience . Because such science can predict future behavior only in terms of the known past , it must leave out many potentialities not so determined ; and because it deals with statistical order , it has tended to reject the unique ...
... experience . Because such science can predict future behavior only in terms of the known past , it must leave out many potentialities not so determined ; and because it deals with statistical order , it has tended to reject the unique ...
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... experience : the fact of de - building , disorganiza- tion , degradation . William Morton Wheeler's discussion of Emergent Evolution is exemplary , because he fully reckons with these possibilities of Abbau , or de - building ; whereas ...
... experience : the fact of de - building , disorganiza- tion , degradation . William Morton Wheeler's discussion of Emergent Evolution is exemplary , because he fully reckons with these possibilities of Abbau , or de - building ; whereas ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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