Article(print)1991

ENLIGHTENED SELF-INTEREST IN THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR: THUCYDIDEAN SPEAKERS ON THE RIGHT OF THE STRONGER AND INTER-STATE PEACE

In: Canadian journal of political science: CJPS = Revue canadienne de science politique : RCSP, Volume 24, Issue 1, p. 67-91

COBY, P

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Abstract

THIS ARTICLE STATES THAT THE SPEAKERS IN THUCYDIDES WHO GIVE VOICE THESIS THAT MIGHT IS RIGHT DO NOT GENERALLY THINK THAT WHAT THEY ARE RELEASING UPON THE WORLD IS A WAR OF ALL AGAINST ALL. ON THE CONTRARY, THEY ARE HOPEFUL, LIKE THE MODEL UTITARIANS THEY ANTICIPATE, THAT THEIR REALISTIC ASSESSMENT OF HUMAN MOTIVES CAN SERVE AS THE FOUNDATION OF AN INTER-STATE ORDER BASED NOT ON JUSTICE BUT ON CLEAR AND CERTAIN POWER RELATIONS. THIS ARTICLE REVIEWS THE SPEAKER, DIODOTUS, WHO SEEMS AT ODDS WITH THE SOPHISTIC RATIONALISM HE SPEAKS ABOUT.

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