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 77
... individual life is thus counterpoised by a cult of the after - life : a life whose quality is supposedly determined , at the day of judgment , by the character of one's behavior on earth . In this version , developed further by ...
... individual life is thus counterpoised by a cult of the after - life : a life whose quality is supposedly determined , at the day of judgment , by the character of one's behavior on earth . In this version , developed further by ...
Page 78
... individual episode a new significance , making it part of an indefinitely prolonged hereafter . The religious cycle of time is a cosmic cycle : it embraces centuries , millennia , eons . That telescopic view both diminishes the claims ...
... individual episode a new significance , making it part of an indefinitely prolonged hereafter . The religious cycle of time is a cosmic cycle : it embraces centuries , millennia , eons . That telescopic view both diminishes the claims ...
Page 206
... individual act , setting at nought the established patterns of commercial activity by its renunciation of profit , its sacrifice of even a minimum normal compensation , testified to an unconditional com- mitment to the ideal of world ...
... individual act , setting at nought the established patterns of commercial activity by its renunciation of profit , its sacrifice of even a minimum normal compensation , testified to an unconditional com- mitment to the ideal of world ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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