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Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics is a 1932 book by Reinhold Niebuhr, an American Protestant theologian at Union Theological Seminary (UTS) in New York City. The thesis of the book is that people are more likely to sin as members of groups than as individuals.
1 de ene. de 2013 · Forthright and realistic, Moral Man and Immoral Society argues that individual morality is intrinsically incompatible with collective life, thus making social and political conflict...
Individual men may be moral in the sense that they are able to consider interests other than their own in determining problems of conduct, and are capable, on occasion, of preferring the advantages of others to their own.
Malotky argues that liberal political culture succumbs to the allure of relativism and moral paralysis. Conservative political culture, conversely, takes refuge in absolutism and subsequently tends toward violence. Malotky's work draws on Niebuhr to discover a productive middle ground between these extremes.
1 de abr. de 2021 · Moral man and immoral society : a study in ethics and politics. by. Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971. Publication date. 1932. Topics. Social ethics, Political ethics, Ethics, Morals, Political Systems, Politics, Social Environment. Publisher. New York ; London : C. Scribner's.
5 de feb. de 2013 · Originally published: New York : C. Scribner's, 1932. Man and society : the art of living together -- The rational resources of the individual for social living -- The religious resources of the individual for social living -- The morality of nations -- The ethical attitudes of privileged classes -- The ethical attitudes of the ...
28 de jun. de 2017 · Moral Man and Immoral Society, first published in 1932, is Reinhold Niebuhr’s important study in ethics and politics.
