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 21
... leads swiftly downhill ; while the attempt to achieve stabilization by collective compulsion and social arrest likewise ... lead to law and order , to peace and co - operation , to love and brotherhood , throughout the planet . Since the ...
... leads swiftly downhill ; while the attempt to achieve stabilization by collective compulsion and social arrest likewise ... lead to law and order , to peace and co - operation , to love and brotherhood , throughout the planet . Since the ...
Page 187
... lead to growth and increasing fullness of life . To this end , our sterile mechanistic culture must be exposed to an even more thorough drenching of the emotions than the earlier romanti- cists dared to dream of . Without re ...
... lead to growth and increasing fullness of life . To this end , our sterile mechanistic culture must be exposed to an even more thorough drenching of the emotions than the earlier romanti- cists dared to dream of . Without re ...
Page 265
... lead a twofold life . We must live once in the actual world , and once more in our minds ; and though we cannot give the same amount of time to the second as to the first , we can use the economy of symbols and images , as we do in ...
... lead a twofold life . We must live once in the actual world , and once more in our minds ; and though we cannot give the same amount of time to the second as to the first , we can use the economy of symbols and images , as we do in ...
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