POLSCI 2I03 Lecture Notes - Reinhold Niebuhr, Hans Morgenthau, Kenneth Waltz
11 Nov 2013
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Is a tradition that emerged in the aftermath of the second world war. Thomas hobbes (the leviathan: life in the state of nature is marked by continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. 1: agrees with thucydides, at the end of the day the deciding factor becomes, who has power. Deals that are made are broken, promises are set aside: fear of a violent and grizzly death. Outbreak of world war ii: appeasements mean the ability or attempt to satisfy the emerging nazi power, limits of idealism, critics of chamberlain and his policies referred to his ideas as idealism . Conflict is inevitable because of egoism, human drives, and other dimensions of human nature. Exploration of how questions of morality apply to the international realm. Intended to be a guiding set of understandings. Scientism: the idea that the social world, like the natural world, operates according to.
