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Thucydides In the Melian dialogue, part of his history of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides relates a debate over Athens' threat to invade neutral Melos to demonstrate strength. The Melians present an idealistic appeal to justice, while Athens' argument is starkly realist: relations between states turn on power, not morality. Thucydides seems take a centrist position. Machiavelli Machiavelli is seen to embody the most extreme realism: that of the Athenians in the Melian dialogue, or Thrasymachus in "The Republic." In "The Prince," he argued that states do and should act immorally (for he did not reject morality per se) as necessary to achieve state ends, including power.
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