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...courses to be given next Government 110, "Communism Democracy," which will be taught the Spring by Reinhold Niebuhr emeritus at Union Seminary, is perhaps the most...
...Niebuhr, self-described in a recent at Memorial Church as "a with an interest in politics," will to present in the half course "analysis of historical and social roots, of the present relevance of the two in a divided world." He will be in the course work by Paul research fellow in Government. Niebuhr is the author of such books as Man and Immoral Society, The of American History, and Children and Children of Darkness...
...because they make a human being responsible to others. The rare individual who feels neither guilt nor anxiety is a monster?a psychopath with no conscience. What psychologists call Urangst, or original anxiety, the anxiety that is inevitably part of any human being, is well described by Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who believes that it springs from man's dual character: on the one hand, man is involved in the contingencies of nature, like the animals; on the other, he has freedom and understanding of his position. "In short, man, being both bound and free, both limited and limitless, is anxious...
This basic, or existential, anxiety (which Niebuhr sees as the precondition of sin) is no more disturbing, in normal quantities, than is rational fear of danger. In contrast, neurotic anxiety is irrational fear, a response to a danger that is unknown, internal, intangible or unreal. Anxiety is fear in search of a cause. Authorities differ on the relationship of guilt to anxiety, but Dr. John Donnelly of Hartford's Institute of Living offers what is for laymen the most sense-making distinction: guilt is apprehension over some transgression in the past, whether actually committed or merely contemplated, whereas anxiety involves...
...worshiping the false god of self, modern man's craven idol. The ammunition that Author Fitch, 59. brings to the neo-orthodox,-neo-conservative battle camp is shiny with polemical wit and brilliance, but his essential targets have long since been peppered by profounder critics, among them Reinhold Niebuhr (The Nattire and Destiny of Man), Bernard Iddings Bell (Crowd Culture), José Ortega y Gasset (Revolt of the Masses'). He seems temperamentally torn between being a Christian critic and playing the Spenglerian doomsayer in tones that resemble that carbuncular Shakespearean scold, Thersites ("Lechery, lechery! Still wars and lechery...