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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

The Realist Critique

Author : E. H. Carr

Published in: The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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For reasons explained in a previous chapter, realism enters the field far behind utopianism and by way of reaction from it. The thesis that ‘justice is the right of the stranger’ was, indeed, familiar in the Hellenic world. But it never represented anything more than the protest of an uninfluential minority, puzzled by the divergence between political theory and political practice. Under the supremacy of the Roman Empire, and later of the Catholic Church, the problem could hardly arise; for the political good, first of the empire, then of the church, could be regarded as identical with moral good. It was only with the break-up of the mediaeval system that the divergence between political theory and political practice became acute and challenging. Machiavelli is the first important political realist.

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Metadata
Title
The Realist Critique
Author
E. H. Carr
Copyright Year
2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95076-8_5