Abstract
Although Kenneth W. Thompson admired Reinhold Niebuhr's political realism, he expressed reservations about Niebuhr's method of moral reasoning. More specifically, Thompson argued that Niebuhr’s habit of introducing abstract moral criteria into discussions of foreign policy problems was the source of his “deepest insights and his most misleading political estimates.” We contrast Thompson’s own method of moral reasoning--one rooted in what political philosophers would today recognize as a type of virtue ethics--with Niebuhr’s and argue that Thompson’s approach to moral reasoning provides a more consistent approach to foreign policy than did Niebuhr’s.
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