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production about the ‘international’ end up making his theoretical approachmatch that which Quentin Skinner calls ‘grand theory’. In the formulationof the British thinker, this corresponds to the construction of abstract andnormative theories on human nature and conduct turning a crucial light to theclarification of the problematique of social action and structures 24 . Like thereluctant theorizers put up by Skinner, in Adriano Moreira too the productionof a ‘grand theory’ seems to fight against the epistemological skepticism foundin his unveiling of contingency and situatedness as human circumstancesresisting the kind of generalizations produced in natural sciences. In Skinner’sown words, “[t.]o describe such skeptics as grand theorists may well sounddangerously like missing the point” 25 . And yet, which is only paradoxical, it ishis skepticism vis-à-vis the possibility of achieving generalizing explanatoryschemata which leads Adriano Moreira to the formulation of a comprehensive‘grand theory’ of human sociableness.Ex Ponto nr.3, 20061idem, ibidem, p. 342David Mapel and Terry Nardin, “Introduction” in idem, eds., International Society: DiverseEthical Perspectives, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1998, p. 63cf. Hedley Bull, “The Importance of Grotius in the Study of International Relations” in Bull,Kingsbury and Roberts, eds., Hugo Grotius and International Relations, Clarendon, Oxford,1990, p. 934idem, ibidem, p. 535Hugo Grotius, De Jure Belli ac Pacis Libri Tres, 1625 (original ed. Le droit de la guerre etde la paix, French translation by P. Pradier-Fodéré, PUF, Paris, 1999, p. 11)6cf. Howard Williams, International Relations and the Limits of Political Theory, Macmillan,London, 1996, p. 797Hugo Grotius, op. cit., p. 98Francisco de Vitoria, De potestate civili, 1528 (original ed. Leπon sur le pouvoir politique,French translation by Maurice Barbier, Vrin, Paris, 1980, pp. 57-58). « Imo, cum una Respublicasit pars totius orbis, et maxime christiana provincia pars totius Respublicae, si bellum utile sit uniprivinciae cum damno orbis au Christianitatis, puto eo ipso bellum esse injustum. »9Martin C. Ortega, “Vitoria and the Universalist Conception of International Relations” inIan Clark and Iver B. Neumann, eds., Classical Theories of International Relations, Macmillan,London, 1996, p. 10310Francisco de Vitoria, Relectio de Indis, 1539 (original ed. Relectio de Indis o liberatd delos índios, Consejo Superior de Investigación Científica, Madrid, 1967, p. 80)11Martin C. Ortega, op. cit., p.11612Martin Wight, International Theory: The Three Traditions, Holmes & Meier, New York,1992, p. 7713idem, ibidem, p. 7714Martin C. Ortega, op. cit., p. 11715idem, ibidem, p. 11616Richard Bernstein, Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics and Praxis,Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1983, p. 1717Claudio Magris, “Utopia e Disincanto” in Magris, Utopia e Disincanto, Garzanti, Milan,2001, p. 1418cf. Raymond Aron, “La querelle du machiavélisme” in Aron, Machiavel et les tyranniesmodernes, Fallois, Paris, 1993, p. 38419Letter of Maritain to Aron, 30 September 1943, published in Aron, Machiavel et les tyranniesmodernes, p. 42520Raymond Aron, “Sur le machiavélisme: dialogue avec Jacques Maritain” in Aron, Machiavelet les tyrannies modernes, p. 43121cf. Raymond Aron, “La querelle du machiavélisme”, p. 38822Jacques Maritain, “The End of Machiavellianism” in Maritain, The Range of Reasons,Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1952, p. 13523Adriano Moreira, Direito Corporativo, p. 2224Quentin Skinner, “The Return of Grand Theory” in idem, ed., The Return of Grand Theoryin the Human Sciences, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985, pp. 3-2025idem, ibidem, p. 12174