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 39
... man . Nature is nature as brought forth and interpreted by man's culture ; and culture even in its most evanes- cent and ethereal aspects is still the culture of nature : the energies and vitalities man finds himself endowed with and ...
... man . Nature is nature as brought forth and interpreted by man's culture ; and culture even in its most evanes- cent and ethereal aspects is still the culture of nature : the energies and vitalities man finds himself endowed with and ...
Page 54
... man's subjective life , are no less integral a part of man's existence than the natural world and the ingenious instru- ments he has devised for mastering it . In other words , the dream is no mere mechanism of escape , but the ...
... man's subjective life , are no less integral a part of man's existence than the natural world and the ingenious instru- ments he has devised for mastering it . In other words , the dream is no mere mechanism of escape , but the ...
Page 66
... man's life is held to be no more than the grass that is shoved into the oven and burned . Man's biological survival , we know now , is actually involved in cosmic processes and prospers best when some sense of a cosmic pur- pose attends ...
... man's life is held to be no more than the grass that is shoved into the oven and burned . Man's biological survival , we know now , is actually involved in cosmic processes and prospers best when some sense of a cosmic pur- pose attends ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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