Richard Niebuhr
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676009 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Niebuhr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Niebuhr |
| SIGNATURE | NIEBUHR R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Idea of Covenant and American Democracy
Every effort to deal with the history of ideas is beset by hazards. Semantic traps are strewn along the way of the inquirer; such words as democracy, liberty, justice, etc., point to different concepts or varying complexes of concepts as they are used in different periods of history and by different men. The unuttered and frequently unacknowledged presuppositions of those who employ them also vary; and since meaning largely depends on context the…
The Idea of Covenant and American Democracy
Every effort to deal with the history of ideas is beset by hazards. Semantic traps are strewn along the way of the inquirer; such words as democracy, liberty, justice, etc., point to different concepts or varying complexes of concepts as they are used in different periods of history and by different men. The unuttered and frequently unacknowledged presuppositions of those who employ them also vary; and since meaning largely depends on context the…
The Idea of Covenant and American Democracy
Every effort to deal with the history of ideas is beset by hazards. Semantic traps are strewn along the way of the inquirer; such words as democracy, liberty, justice, etc., point to different concepts or varying complexes of concepts as they are used in different periods of history and by different men. The unuttered and frequently unacknowledged presuppositions of those who employ them also vary; and since meaning largely depends on context the…
American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Context (archaeology) (1 work) · Covenant (1 work) · Democracy (1 work) · Economic Justice (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · History (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Mathematics (1 work) · Meaning (existential) (1 work)