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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... rational standard of right action , then moral tragedy— a choice situation where all of the options are wrong — would be logically impossible , never a part of human experience . That tragic choices confront humans is one of the most ...
... rational standard of right action , then moral tragedy— a choice situation where all of the options are wrong — would be logically impossible , never a part of human experience . That tragic choices confront humans is one of the most ...
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... rational and routinized . In this generation , others , like Almond and Powell , have defined modernization as the progres- sive separation of legislative from executive and judicial functions ( they call this " role differentiation ...
... rational and routinized . In this generation , others , like Almond and Powell , have defined modernization as the progres- sive separation of legislative from executive and judicial functions ( they call this " role differentiation ...
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... rational lawfulness and regularities in the cosmos , he rejected with both hands any assumptions of a " deterministic " universe . In opposition to determinism , he depicts the cosmos as open to hu- man exertion . Among these laws ...
... rational lawfulness and regularities in the cosmos , he rejected with both hands any assumptions of a " deterministic " universe . In opposition to determinism , he depicts the cosmos as open to hu- man exertion . Among these laws ...
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... rational response to the needs of living together in society . The social contract tradition of Hobbes , Locke , and Rousseau will depict this choice of morality and laws as a rational deliberation about the demands of human ...
... rational response to the needs of living together in society . The social contract tradition of Hobbes , Locke , and Rousseau will depict this choice of morality and laws as a rational deliberation about the demands of human ...
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... rational plan , presumably present in the mind of God at creation . Hence , it has two variants , according to which either ( a ) you have no choice but to take the role God has assigned to you , a belief we should call Christian ...
... rational plan , presumably present in the mind of God at creation . Hence , it has two variants , according to which either ( a ) you have no choice but to take the role God has assigned to you , a belief we should call Christian ...
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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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Страница 201 - If a faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by the republican principle, which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views by regular vote. It may clog the administration, it may convulse the society; but it will be unable to execute and mask its violence under the forms of the Constitution.
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Страница 200 - The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society.