The reconstruction of humanity.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston, Beacon Press, 1948.Description: xii, 247 p. 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301
LOC classification:
  • HM101 .S762
Contents:
Prologue : the eternal quest continues -- Quack cures for war and impotent plans for peace. Political cures ; Economic cures and plans ; Scientific, educational, religious, and other cures and plans -- Insufficient factors of altruism. Altruism : its forms, gradations, and creativity ; Insufficient factors of altruism -- Cultural factors of altruism and egoism. Two basic principles ; What needs to be changed in contemporary culture--and why ; What is pathological in the main compartments of our culture -- Social factors of altruism and egoism. What must be changed in all social institutions--and why ; What must be changed in the family, school, and religious institutions--and why ; What must be changed in our political, economic, and other institutions--and why -- Personal factors of creative altruism. Our incompetence in effecting the transformation of man ; Three remedies ; Methods and techniques of the great masters of altruism -- ways of realization of the plan. How the proposed change is to be achieved.
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Bibliographical footnotes.

WAR, NEWBERY,

Prologue : the eternal quest continues -- Quack cures for war and impotent plans for peace. Political cures ; Economic cures and plans ; Scientific, educational, religious, and other cures and plans -- Insufficient factors of altruism. Altruism : its forms, gradations, and creativity ; Insufficient factors of altruism -- Cultural factors of altruism and egoism. Two basic principles ; What needs to be changed in contemporary culture--and why ; What is pathological in the main compartments of our culture -- Social factors of altruism and egoism. What must be changed in all social institutions--and why ; What must be changed in the family, school, and religious institutions--and why ; What must be changed in our political, economic, and other institutions--and why -- Personal factors of creative altruism. Our incompetence in effecting the transformation of man ; Three remedies ; Methods and techniques of the great masters of altruism -- ways of realization of the plan. How the proposed change is to be achieved.