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...lectures, open to the public, are sponsored by the History Department through gifts in memory of John Milton Potter '26 and Reinhold S. Schumann...
...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...
...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...
Protestant Theologian REINHOLD NIEBUHR in the NEW LEADER...
Speaking before an audience of 400 at the Loeb Drama Center, Nadine Gordimer claimed that "South Africa lacks the culture from which literature draws its real substance." She quoted Reinhold Niebuhr's criteria for a national super-entity, noting that her country has no common language, philosophy, or historical experience, no ethnic kinship, and common...