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might lead to more important work and greater understanding; criti–
cism in Niebuhr's terms leads away from science altogether.
But there is very much more sophistication in social science than
Niebuhr allows. His attack on the concept of economic man is a good
example. This concept, he argues, excludes ethnic, traditional, and
social characteristics; it is a simple materialism which reduces man and
community to less than they are. Yet economic theory, at least today,
uses the concept not to define man, but to define economics. It is not
that men are motivated in all situations to make money, but that this
aspect of human behavior is singled out for study, and that money
is used as a device for quantifying specific relations and activities. All
the individual social sciences seem to assume psychological principles
which, on examination, turn out to be methodological principles or de–
fining terms.
Niebuhr, of course, does not pretend to be a social scientist, but
he is a political theorist.
If
I have stated the systematic argument of
this book correctly, what political position flows from it? Current evils
are not eliminated by social engineering or psychiatry (he explicitly
ridicules these); nor are totalitarian revolutions a solution (he sees
these as movements of corrupt religions, a valid insight). The ordinary
conservative solution is an extensive use of force to restrain an ti-social
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