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 224
... things as if they were persons : but modern man treats persons as if they were things ; and that is perhaps an even more dangerous superstition . The primitive's habit of mind at least did justice to the potentialities for life which ...
... things as if they were persons : but modern man treats persons as if they were things ; and that is perhaps an even more dangerous superstition . The primitive's habit of mind at least did justice to the potentialities for life which ...
Page 229
... thing that we directly encounter , the only experience that we concretely have , is our personal life . The only complete category of our thinking , our professors of philosophy tell us , is the ... things , we can THE DRAMA OF RENEWAL 229.
... thing that we directly encounter , the only experience that we concretely have , is our personal life . The only complete category of our thinking , our professors of philosophy tell us , is the ... things , we can THE DRAMA OF RENEWAL 229.
Page 256
... things take their own course , " as if things alone were en- dowed with the properties of life . When life follows its autonomous pattern , things do not have their own way and mechanization issues no commands . Now such busy people ...
... things take their own course , " as if things alone were en- dowed with the properties of life . When life follows its autonomous pattern , things do not have their own way and mechanization issues no commands . Now such busy people ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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