Political Science · Indian Political Thought
Who said 'Kautilya's Arthashastra exemplified radical Machiavellianism; compared to it, Machiavelli's Prince is harmless'?
AMax Weber ✓ Correct
BMorgenthau
CBentham
DKenneth Waltz
Correct answer: (A) Max Weber — This remark is by Max Weber, made in his lecture Politics as a Vocation.
Explanation
★This remark is by Max Weber, made in his lecture Politics as a Vocation.
★Weber judged Kautilya's Arthashastra to be even more starkly realist than Machiavelli's Prince.
★Kautilya wrote a frank manual of power, spying, war and the interest of the state.
★He detached statecraft from conventional morality, much as Machiavelli would later do.
★Weber used the comparison to stress how cold and calculating the Arthashastra is.
★Morgenthau and Waltz are realists of international relations, not the source of this line.
★So the comparison belongs to Max Weber.
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