Abstract
This chapter presents a brief historical account of reason of state as a key feature of European international thought. The chapter explains how European thought began to conceive politics as a sphere with its own forms of morality and reasoning, from early modern thinkers, Niccolo Machiavelli, Giovanni Botero, Thomas Hobbes, and Samuel Pufendorf to modern thinkers, Max Weber and Friedrich Meinecke. None of these thinkers denied the place of morality in politics, but they did wish to emphasise the deeply political character of the morality and reasoning appropriate to that life sphere.
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