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This essay aims to reconstruct the perspective of Classical Realism in moral, political, and legal theory. Classical Realism includes thinkers like Thucydides, Machiavelli, Freud, Marx, and Nietzsche. It entails three doctrines: naturalism about human nature, pragmatism that only theories with practical effects are worth pursuing, and quietism that normative theories must respect human nature or be pointless. The essay outlines Classical Realism and its opposition to the dominant view that normative theory

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Alex Duque

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