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| At the same time, Niebuhr's realism avoided a narrow consequentialism expressed in mechanical terms of the greatest good of the greatest number. If one uses the familiar distinction between deontology (where certain acts are absolutely forbidden) and consequentialism to categorize Jewish Orthodoxy, one would have to say that Orthodox ethics is closer to the latter. I say "fortunately" because consequentialism is philosophically indefensible as a normative theory. |
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