Machiavelli Redeemed: Retrieving His Humanist Perspectives on Equality, Power, and GloryLehigh University Press, 1998 - 264 страница "The true Machiavelli is not to be found in extremist interpretations. The fault for these misperceptions is partly his own: he spoke in provocative paradoxes to challenge sacred truths, and this makes it easy for observers to ignore the obvious. In this portrait, the obvious dominates our vision, and he emerges as a Renaissance humanist. Like all of us, Machiavelli was a flawed being with strains of greatness mixed with baser ingredients. But his political insights and recognition of the emergence of a new reality qualify him as a political genius. Neither devil nor saint, Machiavelli has languished too long in the Purgatory of the human imagination and deserves redemption."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... force . Finally , his moral cynicism — his conviction that believers in lib- erty must be prepared to do what is necessary , even what is evil , thus sinking to the depths of the enemies of liberty — may prove corrosive in its own right ...
... force . Finally , his moral cynicism — his conviction that believers in lib- erty must be prepared to do what is necessary , even what is evil , thus sinking to the depths of the enemies of liberty — may prove corrosive in its own right ...
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... forces itself upon us as an empirical moral datum.13 But if there were a rationally consistent standard of natural right , one could never be confronted by the irrationality of such tragic choices . In a fully rational cosmos ...
... forces itself upon us as an empirical moral datum.13 But if there were a rationally consistent standard of natural right , one could never be confronted by the irrationality of such tragic choices . In a fully rational cosmos ...
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... forces , perhaps I can at least redeem him for modern readers . The Challenge Of Modernity I mean no paradox when I suggest that Machiavelli's modernity disturbs , for modernizing is a deeply disturbing and disruptive proc- ess even ...
... forces , perhaps I can at least redeem him for modern readers . The Challenge Of Modernity I mean no paradox when I suggest that Machiavelli's modernity disturbs , for modernizing is a deeply disturbing and disruptive proc- ess even ...
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... forces of whatever kind . " 29 To the extent that I am unable to achieve this autonomy , however , we may infer that I require outside help to realize my freedom . An illustration from the American Bill of Rights , typically under ...
... forces of whatever kind . " 29 To the extent that I am unable to achieve this autonomy , however , we may infer that I require outside help to realize my freedom . An illustration from the American Bill of Rights , typically under ...
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... forces was trans- forming — and modernizing — the world . The position of gonfaloniere of justice , the chief elective executive office held by Piero Soderini during Machiavelli's tenure as secretary , had been created in re- sponse to ...
... forces was trans- forming — and modernizing — the world . The position of gonfaloniere of justice , the chief elective executive office held by Piero Soderini during Machiavelli's tenure as secretary , had been created in re- sponse to ...
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Machiavellian Morals | 81 |
Creating Our Moral Obligations | 83 |
The End Justifies the Meansin Corruption | 114 |
Obeying Laws under a Good Constitution | 128 |
Why Freedom May Require Princes | 143 |
Ambition Corruption and Nationalism | 164 |
Economics Equality and Justice | 175 |
Machiavellis Place in the History of Western Political Thought | 193 |
Chronology of Events Shaping Machiavellis Thought | 219 |
Notes | 228 |
Bibliography | 251 |
Index | 259 |
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