niebuhr

Comey's major influence was Reinhold Niebuhr [1], whose politics [2] bore little resemblance to Chomsky's.

As Reinhold Niebuhr noted, privileged groups define merit as whatever supports their self-interest and work to establish those merits as universal values.

Reinhold Niebuhr asserted that no institution could ever achieve the morality of the individual.

I was mistakenly connecting the promotion of this work with the supposition that the CIA was broadly interested in the influence Niebuhr had on Comey (and Obama, McCain, …) in the previous era of American politics.

As Reinhold Niebuhr described in Moral Man and Immoral Society, a group of individuals acting according to shared interests, even when doing so compassionately, will inevitably come into conflict with other groups, socially or militaristically, when those interests conflict.

Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object Other than Pierce, there are other thinkers who were pragmatists of one variety or the other that had a big influence on american thinking like Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Dewey, Reinhold Niebuhr and William James.

Made me remember the quote by Reinhold Niebuhr: "Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt.

There are many possible positions, as in Niebuhr's "Christ and Culture".

Full quote; "Modern technical civilization may perish because it falsely worshipped technical advance as a final good." - Reinhold Niebuhr From: The Nature And Destiny Of Man Vol.

Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals." Note he says nothing about race here.

It actually originates with Reinhold Niebuhr, though it sounds like it came in fairly early to AA.

Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History I find comfort in, at least, spotting the cyclical nature of things.

I'm just a big believer in Niebuhr's 'necessary illusion' or Strauss' 'noble lie' and thought I had found a fellow compatriot.