Abstract

In this research, possible variants of the correlation between violence and non-violence in politics are revealed through the prism of N. Machiavelli’s works, especially Machiavelli’s idea, Machiavellianism, humanistic, and pacifist concepts. The basic difference between the specified variants of understanding the correlation between morality and politics is established. It is stressed that Machiavellianism cannot be named a policy at all, for such an activity is an extremely criminal offence. Machiavelli’s limited humanism can be relatively justified only at the stage of formation of the national states, but it is inadmissible in the globalizing world. The pacifist non-resistant variant is considered to be immoral. It is asserted that modern global problems, both international and domestic ones, can be solved only on the humanistic non-violence policy basis, whose principles are revealed in the “axial time” suggested by the world religions and philosophy as developed by I. Kant, F. Dostoevsky, M. Gandhi, M. L. King, etc.