ARTH1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Analog Science Fiction And Fact, Homo Economicus, The Federalist Papers
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Excerpt from hans j. morgenthau, politics among nations: the struggle for. Six principles of political realism: political realism believes that politics, like society in general, is governed by objective laws that have their roots in human nature. In order to improve society it is first necessary to understand the laws by which society lives. The operation of these laws being impervious to our preferences, men will challenge them only at the risk of failure. Realism, believing as it does in the objectivity of the laws of politics, must also believe in the possibility of developing a rational theory that reflects, however imperfectly and one-sidedly, these objective laws. Human nature, in which the laws of politics have their roots, has not changed since the classical philosophies of china, india, and greece endeavored to discover these laws. Hence, novelty is not necessarily a virtue in political theory, nor is old age a defect.
