This immediately
raises the question of how
ethical judgements about the
prevailing world order
can be formed.
Since there are no objective theoretical frameworks
there can be no
Archimedean standpoint outside history or society from which to engage in ethical criticism or judge ment.
It is not a matter of drafting a set of moral ideals
and using them as a transcendent benchmark to judge forms of political organization
There is no utopia to compare to facts.
This means that critical interna- tional theory must employ the method of immanent critique rather than abstract ethics to criticize
the present order of things