THE REALIST EPIC REVISITED: DECONSTRUCTING THE STATE OF NATURE AS A DISCIPLINE TRADITION / O ÉPICO REALISTA REVISITADO: DESCONSTRUINDO O ESTADO DE NATUREZA COMO TRADIÇÃO DE UMA DISCIPLINA

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2004

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The purpose of this dissertation is to deconsecrate the heroic status that international relations students have attached to Hobbes`s texts - an attachment that results from their inclusion, together with texts by Thucydides, Machiavelli, Rousseau and Hegel, in a realist epic history. In the first chapter, we will see that the subsuming of the philosopher under the realist tradition is rarely questioned, even by the critics of the conceptions endorsed by it. The name of Hobbes remains, in a large extent, associated to the analogy between international anarchy and the state of nature. In the second chapter, we`ll clarify the confluence from the elements of the hobbesian state of nature to the description/explanation of international politics elaborated by the two of realism`s remarkable exponents: Hans Morgenthau and Kenneth Waltz. For last, we`ll bring to light the hypothetical status of the state of nature model, emphasizing the fact that Hobbes himself recognized the limitation of its motivational reductionism to the description of reality. Also, having taken as a premise the fact that the dichotomy inside/outside did not exist in Hobbes`s time, we`ll explore the argument that international peace would be directly associated to the resolution of the problem of order in domestic societies.

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international relations theory hobbes realism construtivismo constructivism estado de guerra realismo anarquia teoria das relacoes internacionais state of war hobbes anarchy

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