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 71
... reason and justice . If the God who permitted the slaughter of the innocent in the Lisbon earthquake shocked Voltaire , what would he have said to the God who permitted his creatures to invent the insane horrors of Buchenwald and ...
... reason and justice . If the God who permitted the slaughter of the innocent in the Lisbon earthquake shocked Voltaire , what would he have said to the God who permitted his creatures to invent the insane horrors of Buchenwald and ...
Page 180
... REASON FOR BALANCE Modern man , committed to the ideology of the machine , has suc- ceeded in creating a lopsided world , which favors certain aspects of the personality that were long suppressed , but which equally suppresses whatever ...
... REASON FOR BALANCE Modern man , committed to the ideology of the machine , has suc- ceeded in creating a lopsided world , which favors certain aspects of the personality that were long suppressed , but which equally suppresses whatever ...
Page 195
... reason to seek balance and universality , the need to remove blockages to human growth and development would be sufficient to justify it . One of the reasons for the failure of the universal religions , per- haps , to achieve the wide ...
... reason to seek balance and universality , the need to remove blockages to human growth and development would be sufficient to justify it . One of the reasons for the failure of the universal religions , per- haps , to achieve the wide ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
ORIENTATION TO LIFE | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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achieved action active animal become biological type bring Buddhist capable capacity century Christian civilization concept conscious cosmic create creative creatures culture death detachment dionysian discipline disintegration divine doctrine dominant drama dream dynamic dynamic equilibrium effect effort elements emergence essential ethical evil existence experience external fact forces functions further goal growth habits Herman Melville higher Hindu human personality ical ideal impulses inner insight interpretation isolationism lack life's 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 produce promethean psychodrama purpose religion renewal response role romanticism routine Schweitzer seek self-fabricating sense single Singular Points social society Socrates spirit super-ego symbols teleology tion totalitarian Toynbee transformation universal values whole world government York