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 110
... Hinduism , until our own day , restricted the province of personality , through its doctrine of permanent castes : a denial of the capacity for personal development and transcendence within a single lifetime . Not till the advent of ...
... Hinduism , until our own day , restricted the province of personality , through its doctrine of permanent castes : a denial of the capacity for personal development and transcendence within a single lifetime . Not till the advent of ...
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... Hinduism , rather than from Christianity , that Schweitzer consciously or unconsciously derived his central ethical doctrine : the reverence for life . The transvaluation of established values , which Schweitzer has so magnificently ...
... Hinduism , rather than from Christianity , that Schweitzer consciously or unconsciously derived his central ethical doctrine : the reverence for life . The transvaluation of established values , which Schweitzer has so magnificently ...
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... Hinduism undertaken by Mahatma Gandhi . Gandhi's translation of religious faith into a working po- litical creed , based on the Tolstoyan principles of non - violence and the duty of manual labor , were declarations of the primacy of ...
... Hinduism undertaken by Mahatma Gandhi . Gandhi's translation of religious faith into a working po- litical creed , based on the Tolstoyan principles of non - violence and the duty of manual labor , were declarations of the primacy of ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
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COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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