ISBN:
9780802120748
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 270 p.
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Kt
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24 cm
DDC:
320.1
Keywords:
Machiavelli, Niccolò Criticism and interpretation
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Machiavelli, Niccolò
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Political science Early works to 1800
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Political science Philosophy
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Kings and rulers Duties
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Machiavelli, Niccolò 1469-1527 Il principe
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
Few books in the history of the world have had a stronger, more lasting, or more errant impact than Machiavelli's The Prince. Over the centuries, the ideal ruler as outlined by Machiavelli has been seen as a ruthless, immoral tyrant, but scholar and political philosopher Philip Bobbitt argues that this is a misunderstanding. He describes The Prince as one half of a masterpiece which, along with Machiavelli's often neglected Discourses, prophesied the end of the feudal era and the birth of the neoclassical Renaissance state. Using both Renaissance examples and cases drawn from our own era, Bobbitt shows Machiavelli's work is both profoundly moral and inherently constitutional, a turning point in our understanding of the relation between war, law, and the state.--From publisher description
Description / Table of Contents:
Arte dello stato : the Machiavelli paradoxThe unholy necromancer and his Koran for courtiers -- Ordini : the important structure of 'The Prince.' The emergence of the modern state ; Can a statesman get into heaven? ; 'The Prince' is a constitutional treatise -- Lo stato : the relation of 'The Prince' to the 'Discourses on Livy.' A republic's duty of consequentialism ; Good arms, good laws ; Machiavelli's philosophy of state -- Virtù e Fortuna : God does not want to do everything. Virtù is from Mars, Fortuna is from Venus ; Machiavelli's view of history ; Machiavelli's philosophy of fate -- Occasione : the interesting timing of 'The Prince.' The Borgias and the Medici ; Machiavelli's constitution ; Machiavelli's vision -- The Machiavelli paradox resolved -- Satan's theologian.
