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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... insight into the processes of human growth - the position of dominance for the primitive impulses and attitudes and ... insights detached themselves from the societies that had brought them forth and united in the Christian myth , which ...
... insight into the processes of human growth - the position of dominance for the primitive impulses and attitudes and ... insights detached themselves from the societies that had brought them forth and united in the Christian myth , which ...
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... insight into the nature of evil : in particular , its perception of the fact that the assumptions that man is naturally good or that he may , by trusting entirely to scientific thought and technical invention , avoid any contamination ...
... insight into the nature of evil : in particular , its perception of the fact that the assumptions that man is naturally good or that he may , by trusting entirely to scientific thought and technical invention , avoid any contamination ...
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... insight into the positive role of religion . The Liberal Spirit . Ithaca , N. Y .: 1948 . Kant , Immanuel : Perpetual Peace ; a Philosophical Essay ( 1793 ) . London : 1903 . Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics ...
... insight into the positive role of religion . The Liberal Spirit . Ithaca , N. Y .: 1948 . Kant , Immanuel : Perpetual Peace ; a Philosophical Essay ( 1793 ) . London : 1903 . Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
The Emergence of the Divine | 68 |
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