class

realism

prioritize national interest

peloponnesian war

athens trying to expand through the agean war, melos ethnicall spartan but new separated

melian siege

416 bc power of nianes, melians spartan colonists are neutral, melian surrended in 45 after a long seige, athenians forced them into slavery, athenians- realists power we are stronger, morality, melians morals and justices morals also useful

arguments for realism

expedians is more important, especially when your life is at stake, law of mature anyone owuld sick domminion if they the power to secure it

morality

write of conduct guides people between right and wrong, obejction- true regardless of belief, subjection- department on human belief, universal- everyon

thomas hobbs

1651 no morality written in sovereignty, human nature - mechanistic

morganthau

conception of power, realize goals of the state

6 principles

politics- objective laws, rooted in human nature, national interests- all about power, interest in power is objective and unnecessary, not fixed nuance, political realism is like morality but gets to everyone it because setting policy is to secure national interest expediency each everything, moral aspirations of a partialism, nature are not the laws which govern the universe realism is profoundly different from other schools of through

video on civil war

war - all hell, returned bought ack, Sherman- made wars against civilians.

moral exception

self preservation is the most foundational haven, most ethical wars hold that protecting over life, self-preservation is exemption, war- battle for self-preservation, in war no normal moral rules apply

morality

cae of conduct grades people in distinguishing between right and wrong

discipline

this is how people act

presscriptive way

people should act this way because human nature is points to moral principles, moral principles are inversely, efficiency

michael walzer

moral discourse is part of human nature, active guiding

can morality be a part of that discourse

shared vocab, action guiding, used for justification,

mytilene

allied wit ahtens than sparter, poff others, would’ve been a comma deciding what to do

necessity strategy

scouting info, cancelation of focus, strike, retirement, disagreement, concentrate fences

morality

agreement on beat descriptive amssacre, disagreement, provide protectve in this way

necessity strategy and morality

when throw is darting of content

are there universal

how do we initialize examine how people talk

pssible objective

hypocrisy, iraqi wmd, clearest audience for the stability

pacifism

Walzer, warmers firearms.

tolstoy wasn’t peace

transformative pacifism, killing never justified, war, constructive of state depends, start and justified society evolves beyond state.