POLI1042 Quiz: Debate Notes (Realist position).docx

• School: Boston College
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI1042
• Professor: Richard Bailey

Document Summary

Again, the range of opinions under this banner is broad, from those who claim war to be a necessary and ineluctable event, one that man can never shirk from, to those who, while accepting war"s inevitability, claim that man has the power to minimize its ravages, just as prescriptive medicines may minimize the risk of disease or lightning rods the risk of storm damage. Wherein lies its cause then becomes the intellectual quest: in the medieval understanding of the universe, the stars, planets and combinations of the four substances (earth, air, water, fire) were understood as providing the key to examining human acts and dispositions. While the modern mind has increased the complexity of the nature of the university, many still refer to the universe"s material nature or its laws for examining why war arises. But thinkers here spread out into various schools of thought on the nature of choice and responsibility.