The feud over raison d’état mirrors the utilitarians-versus-justice debate

Evidence

There is an important parallel in these construals* between the clash of feudal defenders of private right and personal faith with modernizing monarchs and intellectuals pressing the claims of state interest, and more recent encounters between utilitarians and exponents of the primacy of justice. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1213

Categorization

  • XREF: Structural parallelism between two eras of the same dispute — a framing the reader could deploy to show how the personal-trust versus institutional-order tension recurs across theory.