[PDF] Machiavellis Liberal Republican Legacy eBook

Author : Paul A. Rahe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 17,64 MB
Release : 2005-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139448331

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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.

Author : Thomas Block
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 25,92 MB
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1628940689

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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.

Author : Gisela Bock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521435895

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Some of the world's foremost historians of ideas consider Machiavelli's political thought in the larger context of the republican tradition.

Author : Timothy Fuller
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0812247698

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'Machiavelli's Legacy' situates Machiavelli in general and 'The Prince' in particular at the birth of modernity. Joining the conversation with established Machiavelli scholars are political theorists, Americanists, and international relations scholars, ensuring a diversity of viewpoints and approaches

Author : Michael C. Hawley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 15,70 MB
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 0197582338

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"By any metric, Cicero's works are some of the most widely read in the history of Western thought. In this book, Michael Hawley suggests that perhaps Cicero's most lasting and significant contribution to philosophy lies in helping to inspire the development of liberalism. Individual rights, the protection of private property, and political legitimacy based on the consent of the governed are often taken to be among early modern liberalism's unique innovations and part of its rebellion against classical thought. However, this book demonstrates that Cicero's thought played a central role in shaping and inspiring the liberal republican project. Cicero argued that liberty for individuals could arise only in a res publica in which the claims of the people to be sovereign were somehow united with a commitment to universal moral law, which limits what the people can rightfully do. Figures such as Hugo Grotius, John Locke, and John Adams sought to work through the tensions in Cicero's vision, laying the groundwork for a theory of politics in which the freedom of the individual and the people's collective right to rule were mediated by natural law. This book traces the development of this intellectual tradition from Cicero's original articulation through the American Founding. It concludes by exploring how our modern political ideas remain dependent on the conception of just politics first elaborated by Rome's great philosopher-statesman"--

Author : Vickie B. Sullivan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 18,8 MB
Release : 2006-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521034852

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Argues that some English writers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries synthesized a liberal republicanism.

Author : Nicholas Greenwood Onuf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 1998-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521585996

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Republicanism has enjoyed a revival of scholarly interest in several fields. In this book Nicholas Onuf provides the first major treatment of the republican way of thinking about law, politics, and society in the context of international thought. The author tells two stories about republicanism, starting with Aristotle and culminating in the eighteenth century, when international thought became a distinctive enterprise. These two stories surround the thought of Vattel and Kant, and by telling them side by side the author identifies a substantial but little-acknowledged legacy of republicanism in contemporary discussions of sovereignty, intervention, international society, peace, levels of analysis, and the global economy. In identifying this legacy in contemporary thought, Nicholas Onuf develops his constructivist approach to international theory.

Author : Bruce James Smith
Publisher : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691076812

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This inquiry into the nature of political action concerns what the author describes as the most precarious and uncertain of human endeavors." Focusing on specific themes in Machiavelli, Burke, and Tocqueville, Bruce Smith identifies political action as a distinct mode of human activity. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : John Morley
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 30,48 MB
Release : 2021-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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This incredible work presents a concise biography of Machiavelli, the famous Italian diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Renaissance. He has been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science. A must-read for anyone who wants to have a deeper look into the life and works of Machiavelli.