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. |
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... continued elaborations , which differentiate human behavior from the brutal di- rectness of other animals - though even at lower levels , as in the nest- adorning habits of the bower bird , there may exist some faint early extra ...
... continued elaborations , which differentiate human behavior from the brutal di- rectness of other animals - though even at lower levels , as in the nest- adorning habits of the bower bird , there may exist some faint early extra ...
Page 138
... continued existence comes to an end : in man , that irrationality and futility bring about self - destruction . Cancer is , from the standpoint of the organism , prolific but purposeless growth , and all purposeless growth must produce ...
... continued existence comes to an end : in man , that irrationality and futility bring about self - destruction . Cancer is , from the standpoint of the organism , prolific but purposeless growth , and all purposeless growth must produce ...
Page 274
... continued existence of the human race and to put all more local claims below this paramount condition : before we can have a sound village government , we must have a world government . Fami- lies cannot be permanently united with any ...
... continued existence of the human race and to put all more local claims below this paramount condition : before we can have a sound village government , we must have a world government . Fami- lies cannot be permanently united with any ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
2242 | 25 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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achieved action active animal become biological type body bring Buddhism 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 Hinduism human personality 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 Schweitzer seek self-fabricating sense single Singular Points social society Socrates spirit super-ego symbols teleology tion Toynbee transformation unity universal values whole world government York