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Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics (Library of Theological Ethics)

by Reinhold Niebuhr

ISBN13: 9780664224745
ISBN10: 0664224741
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Moral Man and Immoral Society is Reinhold Niebuhr's important early study in ethics and politics. Forthright and realistic, it discusses the inevitability of social conflict, the brutal behavior of human collectives of every sort, the inability of rationalists and social scientists to even imagine the realities of collective power, and, ultimately, how individual morality can overcome social immorality.

The Library of Theological Ethics series focuses on what it means to think theologically and ethically. It presents a selection of important and otherwise unavailable texts in easily accessible form. Volumes in this series will enable sustained dialogue with predecessors though reflection on classic works in the field.

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Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971) was an ethicist, theologian, and political philosopher who taught at Union Theological Seminary in New York City from 1928 to 1960. Before that, for thirteen years, he was minister of Detroit's Bethel Evangelical Church.

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: ROLF_H, January 21, 2009 (view all comments by ROLF_H)
The theme and the ideas are of great relevance for the tubulent and complex time we now are witnessing. No coincidence that Barack Obama has studied Reinhold Niebuhr!
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ISBN:: 9780664224745
Subtitle:: Study in Ethics and Politics
Introduction:: Gilkey, Langdon Brown
Introduction by:: Lovin, Robin W.
Introduction:: Lovin, Robin W.
Author:: Niebuhr, Reinhold
Author:: Reinhold, Niebuhr
Introduction:: Lovin, Robin W.
Author:: Gilkey, Langdon Brown
Publisher:: Westminster John Knox Press
Location:: Louisville
Subject:: Sociology - General
Subject:: Social ethics
Subject:: Political ethics
Subject:: Theology
Subject:: Christianity - Theology - Ethics
Subject:: Christian Theology - Ethics
Subject:: Christianity-Theology and Ethics
Series:: Library of Theological Ethics
Series Volume:: 186
Publication Date:: 20020101
Binding:: Paperback
Language:: English
Pages:: 284
Dimensions:: 9 x 6 in

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