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 53
... response to thirst . The researches of Dr Kurt Goldstein leave no doubt on this score . Almost all meaning above the animal level of response comes through abstraction and symbolic reference : in fact , the symbolic medium - verbal ...
... response to thirst . The researches of Dr Kurt Goldstein leave no doubt on this score . Almost all meaning above the animal level of response comes through abstraction and symbolic reference : in fact , the symbolic medium - verbal ...
Page 109
... response to situations whose very existence Jesus ignored : the just distribution of political power or the erotic responses and duties of man and wife . Hinduism , it would seem , has been more generous to all THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF MAN ...
... response to situations whose very existence Jesus ignored : the just distribution of political power or the erotic responses and duties of man and wife . Hinduism , it would seem , has been more generous to all THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF MAN ...
Page 129
... responses and the wider his range of choices : likewise the greater opportunity he encounters for perversions ... response of disintegrating civilization to its own aimlessness : with Diogenes , it reduces human life in general to ...
... responses and the wider his range of choices : likewise the greater opportunity he encounters for perversions ... response of disintegrating civilization to its own aimlessness : with Diogenes , it reduces human life in general to ...
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