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
... merely a key to knowledge and a key to self - fabrication : it is also a key to man's activities and actions . Karl Marx quarreled with idealism and older forms of materialism because they were content merely to interpret the world ...
... merely a key to knowledge and a key to self - fabrication : it is also a key to man's activities and actions . Karl Marx quarreled with idealism and older forms of materialism because they were content merely to interpret the world ...
Page 52
... merely substitute for the small detectable errors of misused speech the colossal error of rejecting the greater part of man's subjectivity , because it comes to us primarily in symbols of a non - operational order : symbols that have as ...
... merely substitute for the small detectable errors of misused speech the colossal error of rejecting the greater part of man's subjectivity , because it comes to us primarily in symbols of a non - operational order : symbols that have as ...
Page 53
... mere existentialist . But what the existentialist , in horror and despair , finds lacking in the world , is merely what is lacking in his philosophy . Once one throws over sym- bols and essences as Captain Ahab threw over compass and ...
... mere existentialist . But what the existentialist , in horror and despair , finds lacking in the world , is merely what is lacking in his philosophy . Once one throws over sym- bols and essences as Captain Ahab threw over compass and ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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