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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... interpretation , not by direct experience ; and the very vehicle of interpretation itself is a product of that which must be explained : it implies man's organs and physiological aptitudes , his feelings and curiosities and sociabil ...
... interpretation , not by direct experience ; and the very vehicle of interpretation itself is a product of that which must be explained : it implies man's organs and physiological aptitudes , his feelings and curiosities and sociabil ...
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... interpret the world : whereas he understood that thought , being a process of life , must also help transform the world . But he overlooked , in his polemic , the extent to which interpretation itself produces change : primarily by ...
... interpret the world : whereas he understood that thought , being a process of life , must also help transform the world . But he overlooked , in his polemic , the extent to which interpretation itself produces change : primarily by ...
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... interpretation of the organic contribution of more " primitive " cultures— often more highly developed in values than our own - is uniquely good . Freud , Sigmund : The Interpretation of Dreams . London : 1913 . Probably Freud's most ...
... interpretation of the organic contribution of more " primitive " cultures— often more highly developed in values than our own - is uniquely good . Freud , Sigmund : The Interpretation of Dreams . London : 1913 . Probably Freud's most ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
The Emergence of the Divine | 68 |
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