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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971. Reinhold Niebuhr on politics. New York, Scribner [1960] (OCoLC)577300560 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Reinhold Niebuhr |
| OCLC Number: | 193155 |
| Description: | 364 p. 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The crisis: The contemporary crisis -- The soft Utopians: liberalism -- The hard Utopians: communism -- The perennial crisis -- pt. 2. Political philosophy: The study of politics: The illusion of scientific politics: a critique ; The relevance of Christian realism: an orientation -- The process of politics: Human nature and the will-to-power ; Groups in the struggle for power ; The necessity and basis of community ; Structures of power ; Rational, moral and religious norms -- Christian ethics and politics: The problem of the love ethic in politics ; The case against pacifism ; The relevance of the love ethic to politics ; Love, justice and the question of natural law ; Government and the strategy of democracy ; The Christian in politics -- pt. 3. Essays in contemporary politics: National politics: The problem of economic power ; The problem of race relations -- International politics: The international situation ; The resources and limits of the international community ; The Soviet threat ; America's precarious eminence ; Conservatives, liberals and American foreign policy ; Foreign policy and world responsibility ; Foreign policy and moral problems ; Faith for a hazardous future. |
| Responsibility: | Edited by Harry R. Davis and Robert C. Good. |
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