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 94
... transformation has not yet been widely achieved , though it has been the major effort of the classic religions for the last three thousand years . Let us look at this process more closely ; for it has long resisted interpretation : even ...
... transformation has not yet been widely achieved , though it has been the major effort of the classic religions for the last three thousand years . Let us look at this process more closely ; for it has long resisted interpretation : even ...
Page 224
... transformation is not this or that particular institution , but our whole society : that is why only a doctrine of the whole , which rests on the dynamic intervention of the human person in every stage of the process , will be capable ...
... transformation is not this or that particular institution , but our whole society : that is why only a doctrine of the whole , which rests on the dynamic intervention of the human person in every stage of the process , will be capable ...
Page 338
... transformation , 102 Selves , natural , 221 Sen , Keshab Chandra , 117 Sensation , nature of , 40 Sense data , 26 Sensibility , 123 Sensitiveness , need for , 152 Sequences , organic , 28 Sermon on the Mount , 238 Service , universal ...
... transformation , 102 Selves , natural , 221 Sen , Keshab Chandra , 117 Sensation , nature of , 40 Sense data , 26 Sensibility , 123 Sensitiveness , need for , 152 Sequences , organic , 28 Sermon on the Mount , 238 Service , universal ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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