Blairtől Periklészhez. A politikai ítélőképesség kortárs realista felfogása és a „görög realisták”
From Blair to Pericles: The Contemporary Realist View of Political Judgement and the ‚Greek Realists’

Summary/Abstract: The article investigates how political judgement functions in a democratic setting, during crisis situations. It argues that the most elaborated contemporary realist concept of political judgement, that of Raymond Geuss, needs to be altered at two points to make it suitable to describe such situations. The first point concerns the relationship between ends and circumstances, the second the appropriate metaphor of political judgement. Starting out from two realist classics, Aristotle and Thucydides, the article argues that the Aristotelian scheme of practical deliberatio and the metaphor of touch can enrich the realist concept of judgement, enhancing its empirical relevance. The author hopes that such an analysis might contribute to a more recent trend in contemporary political realism, one that focuses on positive theorizing instead of a critique of political moralism.

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