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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... Final results : a surfeit of tasks , interests , stimuli , reactions : an absence of valuable order and purpose . In the end , such a civilization can produce only a mass man : in- capable of choice , incapable of spontaneous , self ...
... Final results : a surfeit of tasks , interests , stimuli , reactions : an absence of valuable order and purpose . In the end , such a civilization can produce only a mass man : in- capable of choice , incapable of spontaneous , self ...
Page 131
... final causes are merely fabrications of men . " During the last three centuries that attitude became ingrained among men of science ; but Spinoza's dismissal , for all that , was more than a little specious , be- cause there is a great ...
... final causes are merely fabrications of men . " During the last three centuries that attitude became ingrained among men of science ; but Spinoza's dismissal , for all that , was more than a little specious , be- cause there is a great ...
Page 302
... final pages of the final essay . Janet , Paul ( Alexandre René ) : Final Causes . Edinburgh : 1878 . One of the best nineteenth century discussions , which won the approbation of such a keen thinker as Professor Robert Flint , who wrote ...
... final pages of the final essay . Janet , Paul ( Alexandre René ) : Final Causes . Edinburgh : 1878 . One of the best nineteenth century discussions , which won the approbation of such a keen thinker as Professor Robert Flint , who wrote ...
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