Tao/Lipunan, Moral/Imoral: Macario Pineda at Reinhold Niebuhr

• Main Author: Francisco, Jose Mario C., SJ
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2014
• Subjects: Macario Pineda; Reinhold Niebuhr; Philippine social problem; moral freedom; social change
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/paha/vol4/iss1/2; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/paha/article/1091/viewcontent/PAHA_204.1_202_20Article_20__20Francisco.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Macario Pineda’s novels, particularly his 1947 masterpiece Ang Ginto sa Makiling, engage fundamental questions about the moral nature of the human person and the possibility of societal transformation. Though dissimilar in personal background and social milieu from Pineda, Reinhold Niebuhr, social e...