| ID | 077210 |
| Title Proper | Tragedy, Tragic choices and contemporary international political theory |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Brown, Chris |
| Publication | 2007. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The essence of the tragic vision of the world is that human action sometimes, perhaps often, involves a choice between two radically incompatible but equally undesirable outcomes: that whatever we do in a given situation we will be, from one perspective, acting wrongly. This account of the human condition may be particularly germane to realist thought, but the absence of a sense of the tragic can be employed to critique many other areas of international political theory. Analytical political theory in general rejects the tragic vision, and a great deal of modern writing on humanitarian intervention and global distributive justice similarly refuses to accept that sometimes there are no unambiguously right answers; that to act is, necessarily, to do wrong. The unwillingness to admit the tragic dimension of human existence is not simply intellectually harmful but also politically debilitating |
| `In' analytical Note | International Relations Vol. 21, No.1; Mar 2007: p5-13 |
| Journal Source | International Relations Vol. 21, No.1; Mar 2007: p5-13 |
| Key Words | Global Justice ; Intervention ; Tragedy ; Tragic Choices |