Moral man and immoral society
Subtitle: a study in ethics and politics
By: Reinhold Niebuhr ; with a new foreword by Cornel West ; introduction by Langdon B. Gilkey
Edition: Second edition.
Series: Library of theological ethics; Library of theological ethics
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Louisville, KY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780664235390
Copyright date: 1932
Subjects: Socialetik; Gesellschaft; Politisk etik; Politische Ethik; Social ethics; Political ethics; Sozialethik; Individuum
Description: Moral Man and Immoral Society argues that individual morality is intrinsically incompatible with collective life, thus making social and political conflict inevitable. Niebuhr further discusses our inability to imagine the realities of collective power; the brutal behavior of human collectives of every sort; and, ultimately, how individual morality can mitigate the persistence of social immorality.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Man and society : the art of living together; title: The rational resources of the individual for social living; title: The religious resources of the individual for social living; title: The morality of nations; title: The ethical attitudes of privileged classes; title: The ethical attitudes of proletarian classes; title: Justice through revolution; title: Justice through political force; title: The preservation of moral values in politics; title: The conflict between individual and social morality.