Political Science · Indian Political Thought
UGC NET November 2017 Political Science
Who said 'Kautilya's Arthashastra exemplified radical Machiavellianism, compared to which Machiavelli's The Prince is harmless'?
AWeber ✓ Correct
BMorgenthau
CWaltz
DKissinger
Correct answer: (A) Weber — Max Weber made this remark, in his essay 'Politics as a Vocation' (1919).
Explanation
★Max Weber made this remark, in his essay 'Politics as a Vocation' (1919).
★Weber held that Kautilya's Arthashastra was so ruthless that it made Machiavelli's The Prince look harmless by comparison.
★He noted that The Prince leaves out the harsher instruments of domination, such as networks of spies, the assassination of enemies and the use of torture.
★The Arthashastra, by contrast, describes these methods of statecraft openly and in detail.
★Weber was a German sociologist best known for his theory of bureaucracy and his analysis of authority and the modern state.
★Hans Morgenthau, the distractor, was a realist theorist of international politics and author of 'Politics Among Nations (1948)'.
★Kenneth Waltz founded neorealism with 'Theory of International Politics (1979)', and Henry Kissinger was a diplomat-scholar of realpolitik.
★Jawaharlal Nehru called Kautilya the Indian Machiavelli, while Amartya Sen judged him not immoral but unmoral in his politics.
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