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Towards Just International Relations Theory
Hans Morgenthau’s Classical Realismand the Problem of Justice
Ian McMurtrie1110338Honours ThesisMay 7, 2007
 
 Acknowledgements
 
I would like to offer my sincere thanks and appreciation to the following people for theirassistance with this project and throughout my undergraduate career.My advisor and the members of the review board:
Professor James MuirProfessor Sandra TomsonsProfessor Samantha Arnold
My friends, family and colleagues:
 Maria Cristina Laureano John-Paul Knox Melissa DzwonekProfessor Jane ForseyProfessor Brian Keenan Melanie Zurba James, Adele and Heather McMurtrieLen McMurtrie
 
 “Yes, it was ugly enough; but if you were man enough you wouldadmit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of aresponse to the terrible frankness of that noise, a dim suspicion of therebeing a meaning in it which you -- you so remote from the night of firstages -- could comprehend. And why not? The mind of man is capable of anything -- because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valour,rage -- who can tell? -- but truth -- truth stripped of its cloak of time.Let the fool gape and shudder -- the man knows, and can look onwithout a wink…He must meet that truth with his own true stuff --with his own in-born strength. Principles won't do. Acquisitions,clothes, pretty rags -- rags that would fly off at the first good shake. No; you want a deliberate belief. An appeal to me in this fiendish row -- isthere? Very well; I hear; I admit, but I have a voice, too, and for good orevil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced.”“‘…It is a difficult case. What do you think I ought to do -- resist? Eh?I want no more than justice.’ . . . He wanted no more than justice -- nomore than justice.”
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 Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
 
“For the social world being but a projection of human nature onto thecollective plane, being but man writ large, man can understand andmaintain control of society no more than he can of himself. Thus thevery intimacy of his involvement impedes both understanding andcontrol.”
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Hans Morgenthau
 
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