An “open self in an open society” is the ideal which Charles Morris sets forth. America’s foremost younger philosopher describes in popular terms how modern philosophy copes with some of the major problems of today. In these pages he explores the main roads to self-knowledge, and the correlation of the individual with society. Not one to rely on mere airy speculation, Dr. Morris polled mo…
This 50th-anniversary edition, with a new foreword by the distinguished historian Martin E. Marty, who regards this book as one of the most vital books of our time, as well as an introduction by the author never before included in the book, and a new preface by James Gustafson, the premier Christian ethicist who is considered Niebuhr’s contemporary successor, poses the challenge of being true…