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A Study on the Realizable Possibility of Justice: Focusing on the Anthropology of Reinhold Niebuhr

Choi, Kyung Suk 1

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ABSTRACT

Reinhold Niebuhr set the direction of social ethics in the ecumenical movement by participating actively in this movement. He criticized economic power, because wealth and power are concentrated in one place through economic activities. The object of this criticism was communism and libertarianism. He tried to find a solution that was close to approximation instead of suggesting a specific scheme. To this end, the democratic society should strive for constant debate and new development of property issues, since democracy is a way to find second best solutions to unresolvable problems. The basis of all this is his anthropology, that is, the ability to achieve justice and a tendency to commit injustice.

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