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.
- ISBN10 068471857X
- ISBN13 9780684718576
- Publish Date 1 January 1980
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 August 2008
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)
- Imprint Macmillan USA
- Format Paperback
- Pages 312
- Language English