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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... Follow your destiny ! " Within the lim- its of time and chance and necessitous circumstance , every organism seeks to be master of its own fate . What Patrick Geddes called the insurgent quality of life , its capacity for initiating new ...
... Follow your destiny ! " Within the lim- its of time and chance and necessitous circumstance , every organism seeks to be master of its own fate . What Patrick Geddes called the insurgent quality of life , its capacity for initiating new ...
Page 146
... follow its general counsel of moderation , this doc- trine helps to rectify in some degree even qualitative misjudgments ; for evil , if not manifested in inordinate amounts , can be assimilated and overcome . The doctrine of the mean ...
... follow its general counsel of moderation , this doc- trine helps to rectify in some degree even qualitative misjudgments ; for evil , if not manifested in inordinate amounts , can be assimilated and overcome . The doctrine of the mean ...
Page 292
... follow is untried and heavy with difficulty ; it will test to the utmost our faith and our powers . But it is the way toward life , and those who follow it will prevail . BIBLIOGRAPHY As with The Condition of Man , the ground 292 THE ...
... follow is untried and heavy with difficulty ; it will test to the utmost our faith and our powers . But it is the way toward life , and those who follow it will prevail . BIBLIOGRAPHY As with The Condition of Man , the ground 292 THE ...
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