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What, according to Niebuhr, is "the immediate moral problem of every human life"?

"The immediate moral problem of every human life" is "the problem of arranging some kind of armistice between various contending factions and forces" (An Interpretation of Christian Ethics: 39; cf. also 59: "the problem of creating and maintaining tentative harmonies of life in the world in terms of the possibilities of the human situation"; 93: "the immediate problems of justice and equity in human relations"; 98: "the immediate social problems of human existence"; "the immediate problems of [men's] historical and social existence"; 140: "the immediate problems of social justice").

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