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Quotes from The Responsible Self: An Essay in Christian Moral Philosophy — H. Richard Niebuhr

1894–1962 United States

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Because suffering is the exhibition of the presence in our existence of that which is not under our control, or of the intrusion into our self-legislating existence of an activity operating under another law than ours, it cannot be brought adequately within the spheres of teleological and deontological ethics, the ethics of man-the-maker, or man-the-citizen.

The Responsible Self: An Essay in Christian Moral Philosophy (1963)

It is part of the meaning of suffering that it is that which cuts athwart our purposive movements. It represents the denial from beyond ourselves of our movement toward pleasure; or it is the frustration of our movement toward self-realization or toward the actualization of our potentialities.

The Responsible Self: An Essay in Christian Moral Philosophy (1963)

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