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Democracy has a more compelling justification and requires a more realistic vindication than is g... more Democracy has a more compelling justification and requires a more realistic vindication than is given it by the liberal culture with which it has been associated in modern history. The excessively optimistic estimates of human nature and human history with which the democratic credo has been historically associated are a source of peril to democratic society for contemporary experience is refuting this optimism and there is danger that it will seem to refute the democratic ideal as well."
It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the working... more It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the working of institutions which appear to be both neutral and independent; to criticize them in such a manner that the political violence which has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight them."
In the decades to come the crucial ecumenical task will no longer be the doctrinal dialogue betwe... more In the decades to come the crucial ecumenical task will no longer be the doctrinal dialogue between Christian churches but the dialogues between the religions.
Democracy has a more compelling justification and requires a more realistic vindication than is g... more Democracy has a more compelling justification and requires a more realistic vindication than is given it by the liberal culture with which it has been associated in modern history. The excessively optimistic estimates of human nature and human history with which the democratic credo has been historically associated are a source of peril to democratic society for contemporary experience is refuting this optimism and there is danger that it will seem to refute the democratic ideal as well."
It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the working... more It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the working of institutions which appear to be both neutral and independent; to criticize them in such a manner that the political violence which has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight them."
In the decades to come the crucial ecumenical task will no longer be the doctrinal dialogue betwe... more In the decades to come the crucial ecumenical task will no longer be the doctrinal dialogue between Christian churches but the dialogues between the religions.