Machiavelli's VirtueUniversity of Chicago Press, 25 лют. 1998 р. - 460 стор. Uniting thirty years of authoritative scholarship by a master of textual detail, Machiavelli's Virtue is a comprehensive statement on the founder of modern politics. Harvey Mansfield reveals the role of sects in Machiavelli's politics, his advice on how to rule indirectly, and the ultimately partisan character of his project, and shows him to be the founder of such modern and diverse institutions as the impersonal state and the energetic executive. Accessible and elegant, this groundbreaking interpretation explains the puzzles and reveals the ambition of Machiavelli's thought. "The book brings together essays that have mapped [Mansfield's] paths of reflection over the past thirty years. . . . The ground, one would think, is ancient and familiar, but Mansfield manages to draw out some understandings, or recognitions, jarringly new."—Hadley Arkes, New Criterion "Mansfield's book more than rewards the close reading it demands."—Colin Walters, Washington Times "[A] masterly new book on the Renaissance courtier, statesman and political philosopher. . . . Mansfield seeks to rescue Machiavelli from liberalism's anodyne rehabilitation."—Roger Kimball, The Wall Street Journal |
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... brings success in politics , he wants to keep states in con- flict , both domestic and foreign , so as to sustain the demand for virtue . For the sake of virtue as he understands it , he stops short of universal political solutions and ...
... brings success in politics , he wants to keep states in con- flict , both domestic and foreign , so as to sustain the demand for virtue . For the sake of virtue as he understands it , he stops short of universal political solutions and ...
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... bring to light what historicism ignores and to present Machiavelli's political science on its merits . To see its merits requires some reference to history , not so much to events as to the history of political science . The peculiar ...
... bring to light what historicism ignores and to present Machiavelli's political science on its merits . To see its merits requires some reference to history , not so much to events as to the history of political science . The peculiar ...
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... bring down the nobles , then betray the people ( D I 40 ) —he encourages tyranny and does not merely describe it . This is all the more true if some men have a natural inclination to tyranny , as seems to be the case according to him ...
... bring down the nobles , then betray the people ( D I 40 ) —he encourages tyranny and does not merely describe it . This is all the more true if some men have a natural inclination to tyranny , as seems to be the case according to him ...
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... bring " common benefit to each ” ( D I pr ) . It is hard to imagine a broader ambition for a human being , as a human being , than this . But how could a new notion of virtue cooperating or compromising with evil benefit everyone ? How ...
... bring " common benefit to each ” ( D I pr ) . It is hard to imagine a broader ambition for a human being , as a human being , than this . But how could a new notion of virtue cooperating or compromising with evil benefit everyone ? How ...
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... brings up , he has a rimedio , and the cure for ingratitude is fear . The prince can prevent self- satisfaction in beneficiaries by putting them in fear . Let them be unrewarded , or better , punished when they deserve benefits ; then ...
... brings up , he has a rimedio , and the cure for ingratitude is fear . The prince can prevent self- satisfaction in beneficiaries by putting them in fear . Let them be unrewarded , or better , punished when they deserve benefits ; then ...
Зміст
Machiavellis Beginnings | 53 |
Machiavellis Books | 123 |
Machiavellis Politics | 231 |
Notes | 315 |
Bibliography | 351 |
Index | 361 |
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Сторінка 103 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason ; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations, and of ages.
Сторінка 318 - So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
Сторінка 102 - To be bred in a place of estimation; to see nothing low and sordid from one's infancy; to be taught to respect one's self; to be habituated to the censorial inspection of the public eye; to look early to public opinion; to stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the widespread and infinitely diversified combinations of men and affairs in a large society...
Сторінка 100 - We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of Nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation. All we can do, and that human wisdom can do, is to provide that the change shall proceed by insensible degrees.
Сторінка 100 - This mode will, on the one hand, prevent the unfixing old interests at once; a thing which is apt to breed a black and sullen discontent, in those who are at once dispossessed of all their influence and consideration. This gradual...
Сторінка 182 - And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can, they will be praised or not blamed; but when they cannot, 9.
Сторінка 105 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.
Сторінка 187 - And because there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms, and where there are good arms there must be good laws, I shall leave out the reasoning on laws and shall speak of arms.
Сторінка 282 - the distinctly modern idea of the State as a form of public power separate from both the ruler and the ruled...
Сторінка 16 - For a man who wants to make a profession of good in all regards must come to ruin among so many who are not good. Hence it is necessary to a prince, if he wants to maintain himself, to learn to be able not to be good, and to use this and not use it according to necessity.
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