the realist critique by Eh Carr (session 5)

The reading by Eh Carr is a very good reflection of today's politics. He has pictured the essence of human nature bu using views of famous theologians which includes Machiavelli , Marx etc. he used bacon's view on Machiavelli's proposition  to consolidate his argument that " men's are in the habit of doing, not what they ought to do". According to me it is  true in a sense that a very positive view of human race is not very realistic. If that would have been the case then we must not have expected to see two major world wars taken in past 100 years which changed the worlds political spectrum. the realist approach to interpret the geography and politics is kind of very extreme approach though much better than Utopianism. This is because the earth is not heaven and human being can be blamed of being selfish and self interested as per social contract theory. There needs to be a authority which is sovereign  and should preserving the interests of all and since it is set up through their support, he must define what is best for the rest. the realist approach conforms this idea.  I agree with 3 essential tenets of Machiavelli doctrine regarding the ethics in politics , rejection of utopianism and that history is a sequence of cause and effect. we cannot create a ideal world. Assuming that  men are selfish and  they would not conform to ethics until and unless they kept honest by constraints. therefore there should be an authority to make disciplines and constraints

                                                                                                                         ~Uzair Mujeeb