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"Realism and Security" published on by Oxford University Press.

Plato's moral realism rests on the Idea of the Good, the unhypothetical first principle of all. It is this, as Plato says, that makes just things useful and beneficial. That Plato makes the first principle of all the Idea of the Good sets his approach apart from that of virtually every other philosopher. This fact has been occluded by later Christian Platonists who tried to identify the Good with the God of scripture. But for Plato, theology, though important, is subordinate to metaphysics. For this reason, ethics is independent of theology and attached to metaphysics. This book challenges many contemporary accounts of Plato's ethics that start with the so-called Socratic paradoxes and attempt to construct a psychology of action or moral psychology that makes these paradoxes defensible. Rather, Lloyd Gerson argues that Plato at least never thought that moral realism was defensible outside of a metaphysical framework.

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction: realism, discourse and deconstruction; 2 Critical realism and semiosis; 3 Critical realism, critical discourse analysis, concrete research; 4 How might the inclusion of discursive approaches enrich critical realist analysis?; 5 Will the materialists in the Bakhtin Circle please stand up?; 6 Value and contract formation; 7 Lost in transit: reconceptualising the real; 8 Laclau and Mouffe and the discursive turn; 9 Eurocentrism, realism, and the anthropic cartography of emancipation

Colin Marshall offers a ground-up defense of objective morality, in which the central role is played by compassion. Only compassion, Marshall argues, lets us be in touch with others' motivational mental properties. 'Compassionate Moral Realism' offers a new answer to the question 'Why be moral?', a central philosophical concern since Plato

What does realism tell us about peaceful change? Although recognized by E.H. Carr as a fundamental problem of international politics, realists have rarely sought to tackle the issue of peaceful change directly. This chapter explores how the logic(s) of realism may contribute to our understanding of peaceful change - even if there is no escape from power politics. ; This chapter discusses how to understand peaceful change from the perspective of classical realism, structural realism and neoclassical realism.