Machiavelli Redeemed: Retrieving His Humanist Perspectives on Equality, Power, and GloryLehigh University Press, 1998 - 264 páginas "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 |
Índice
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35 | |
Human Nature and Potentials | 57 |
Corruption and Nobility Maximizing Human Potentials | 59 |
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 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 43 - ... how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather learn to bring about his own ruin than his preservation.
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The Rise and Fall of Regimes: Toward Grand Theory of Politics Terrence E. Cook Visualização de excertos - 2000 |