Machiavelli and Hume as Forerunners of Modern Political Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Machiavelli and Hume as Forerunners of Modern Political Thought write by Saul Jacob Frankel. This book was released on 1952. Machiavelli and Hume as Forerunners of Modern Political Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The writings of Machiavelli and Hume are separated by two and a quarter centuries. There is no doubt that the intellectual climates of Renaissance and Enlightenment, the political problems of Italy and England ~ and the social positions of Machiavelli and Hume were important elements in the formation of their respective philosophies. It is undeniable that certain aspects of their thought can be better understood in terms of the historical context in which they lived. [...]" --
Hume and Machiavelli
Hume and Machiavelli - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hume and Machiavelli write by Frederick G. Whelan. This book was released on 2004. Hume and Machiavelli available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although there are myriad references to Machiavelli's work within Hume's writing, a deeper connection between the two has never been fully explored. Whelan uncovers extensive Machiavellian dimensions throughout Hume's work, illustrating numerous parallels in both theorists' treatment of such issues as human nature, historical method, and political ethics. While at first such a comparison may be startling, Whelan argues convincingly that Hume's writing, commonly regarded as moderate and amiable, is indeed a locus of realist liberal political theory.
Machiavelli
Machiavelli - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Machiavelli write by Maurizio Viroli. This book was released on 1998-07-30. Machiavelli available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought Series Editor: Dr Mark Philp, Oriel College, University of Oxford Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought present critical examinations of the work of major political philosophers and social theorists, assessing both their initial contribution and continuing relevance to politics and society. Each volume provides a clear, accessible, historically-informed account of each thinker's work, focusing on a re-assessment of their central ideas and arguments. Founders encourage scholars and students to link their study of classic texts to current debates in political philosophy and social theory. This launch volume in the Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought series presents a critical examination of Machiavelli's thought, combining an accessible, historically-informed account of his work with a re-assessment of his central ideas and arguments. Maurizio Viroli challenges the accepted interpretations of Machiavelli's work, insisting that his republicanism was based not on a commitment to virtue, greatness, and expansion, but to the ideal of civic life protected by the shield of fair laws. His detailed study of how Machiavelli composed his famous work The Prince presents new interpretations, and he further argues that the most challengingand completely underestimatedaspect of Machiavelli's thought is his philosophy of life, in particular his conceptions of love, women, irony, God, and the human condition. Viroli demonstrates that Machiavelli composed The Prince, and all his works, according to the rules of classical rhetoric and never intended to found the 'modern science of politics', aiming rather to continue and refine the practice of political theorising as a rhetorical endeavour taught by the Roman masters of civic philosophy. Viroli's Machiavelli, a serious challenge to contemporary methods of doing political theory, will be essential for advanced students of the history of political thought.
Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy
Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy write by Paul A. Rahe. This book was released on 2005-11-14. Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The significance of Machiavelli's political thinking for the development of modern republicanism is a matter of great controversy. In this volume, a distinguished team of political theorists and historians reassess the evidence, examining the character of Machiavelli's own republicanism and charting his influence on Marchamont Nedham, James Harrington, John Locke, Algernon Sidney, John Trenchard, Thomas Gordon, David Hume, the Baron de Montesquieu, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton. This work argues that while Machiavelli himself was not liberal, he did set the stage for the emergence of liberal republicanism in England. By the exponents of commercial society he provided the foundations for a moderation of commonwealth ideology and exercised considerable, if circumscribed, influence on the statesmen who founded the American Republic. Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy will be of great interest to political theorists, early modern historians, and students of the American political tradition.
Botero: The Reason of State
Botero: The Reason of State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Botero: The Reason of State write by Giovanni Botero. This book was released on 2017-09-07. Botero: The Reason of State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Niccolò Machiavelli's seminal work, The Prince, argued that a ruler could not govern morally and be successful. Giovanni Botero disputed this argument and proposed a system for the maintenance and expansion of a state that remained moral in character. Founding an anti-Machiavellian tradition that aimed to refute Machiavelli in practice, Botero is an important figure in early modern political thought, though he remains relatively unknown. His most notable work, Della ragion di Stato, first popularised the term 'reason of state' and made a significant contribution to a major political debate of the time - the perennial issue of the relationship between politics and morality - and the book became a political 'bestseller' in the late sixteenth and the seventeenth century. This translation of the 1589 volume introduces Botero to a wider Anglophone readership and extends this influential text to a modern audience of students and scholars of political thought.
