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.
Machiavelli in America
Machiavelli in America - 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 in America write by Thomas Block. This book was released on 2014-03-01. Machiavelli in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Machiavelli advised us that people are so mean, small and selfish that they will only act under necessity, so the successful prince must force the population, through whatever means necessary, to follow his dictates. This book traces the influence of the Florentine thinker on American politics, from the Founders (c. 1770s) through today's rough-and-tumble political panorama. Machiavelli's ideas have been re-interpreted internationally as 'real-politik.' He proposed that the 'ends justify the means,' and that any manner of fraud, violence or corruption must be utilized in attaining and retaining power. He maintained that the most powerful form of fraud was the appearance of religiosity and said that the successful prince must hold no art higher than that of war. In this disturbing, erudite and highly readable book, America is shown to be a surprising example of Machiavellian politics, utilizing all of the post-modern methods of information distribution and "legal" fraud and corruption. Lee Atwater, Karl Rove, George W. Bush, the Supreme Court's 'Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission' (2010) and the Super PACs it spawned, the massive amounts of money ("power's master key"), the intermingling of the language of religion and war, and the 90% negative advertising of the 2012 Presidential campaign (channeling Machiavelli's dictum that the adversary must be "assassinated," though in contemporary America by character assassination) and even Barack Obama's Machiavellian machinations are looked at in light of the Renaissance political philosopher's ideas. The last section of the book offers a response to this with a specific, implementable program that will begin to devolve the power of American democracy back to the people.
Against Throne and Altar
Against Throne and Altar - 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 Against Throne and Altar write by Paul Anthony Rahe. This book was released on 2009. Against Throne and Altar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Machiavelli and Republicanism
Machiavelli and Republicanism - 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 Republicanism write by Gisela Bock. This book was released on 1990. Machiavelli and Republicanism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Some of the world's foremost historians of ideas consider Machiavelli's political thought in the larger context of the republican tradition.
Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England
Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England - 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, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England write by Vickie B. Sullivan. This book was released on 2006-12-14. Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Argues that some English writers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries synthesized a liberal republicanism.
