ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the ethical issues around power and crime. It presume that cultural achievement through war, despite the commodification of the other it entails, is still part of rational adherence to the moral law and that, if one wants to find allusions to power as crime, one have to look elsewhere. The usefulness of the concept of ideology, is questioned by some theorists because those invoking and formulating it appear to oppose it to the of truth or science. The chapter finds supreme manifestations in contemporary wars, which are the result of decisions made by bellicose elites for the preservation or intensification of international inequality. The avalanche of interpretations one have encountered in political theory vindicates the opinion of Socrates who, retorting to Protagoras' claim that he teaches the art of politics, argues that politics cannot be assimilated to other arts. Political analysis focuses on rules, their consistency and their performance, namely on whether their faithful enactment results in.
