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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Page 141
... dominance of the lower functions by the higher ones is always fitful and uncertain : the conscious , rational mind , established later than the lower functions , is like a wise ruler , resisted by his un- ruly subjects , who would ...
... dominance of the lower functions by the higher ones is always fitful and uncertain : the conscious , rational mind , established later than the lower functions , is like a wise ruler , resisted by his un- ruly subjects , who would ...
Page 143
... dominance of the higher functions , which is the condition for all truly human develop- ment , is not for the sake of suppressing the lower functions , but of using them more fully for ends that they themselves cannot encom- pass ; for ...
... dominance of the higher functions , which is the condition for all truly human develop- ment , is not for the sake of suppressing the lower functions , but of using them more fully for ends that they themselves cannot encom- pass ; for ...
Page 147
Lewis Mumford. the control of quantity has become one of the dominant moral prob- lems of our age : a problem all the more difficult to solve because we have treated our permissive ability to remove quantitative limits as a command . At ...
Lewis Mumford. the control of quantity has become one of the dominant moral prob- lems of our age : a problem all the more difficult to solve because we have treated our permissive ability to remove quantitative limits as a command . At ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
The Emergence of the Divine | 68 |
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