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Reinhold Niebuhr on politics; his political philosophy and its application to our age as expressed in his writings.

Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
Publisher: New York, Scribner [1960]
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971.
Reinhold Niebuhr on politics.
New York, Scribner [1960]
(OCoLC)577300560
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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