So I (Luhmann) move on to an analysis based on decision theory, with the question of how the difference between Good and Evil can be transformed into an optimization program: as much sin as necessary, as much good as possible. You may already suspect the proximity to Politics, for example to the old formula of raison d'état. Or the remarkable necessitas moralis ad optimum, the precursor of the theodicy debate.
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Luhmann N (2008): Die Moral der Gesellschaft. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, p. 178.
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