The Conduct of LifeDiscusses 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. -- Publisher's description. |
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That is not 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 ...
That is not 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 ...
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The various contemporary reactions against the full employment of language , from da - daism to logical positivism , will not in the least save us from error and self - deception : they merely substitute for the small detectable errors ...
The various contemporary reactions against the full employment of language , from da - daism to logical positivism , will not in the least save us from error and self - deception : they merely substitute for the small detectable errors ...
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The invention of the symbol was not merely the first great step from the organic to the super - organic : it also led to ... would become empty , meaningless , and absurdwhich is , precisely , what it seems to the mere existentialist .
The invention of the symbol was not merely the first great step from the organic to the super - organic : it also led to ... would become empty , meaningless , and absurdwhich is , precisely , what it seems to the mere existentialist .
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Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
ORIENTATION TO LIFE | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Conduct of Life Volume 34 of Harvest book Harvest book, HB 34 |
| Author | Lewis Mumford |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace, 1951 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 342 pages |
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