What Is Virtu Machiavelli
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Machiavelli's Virtue
Author: Harvey C. Mansfield
language: en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date: 2024-05-31
"[A] masterly new book on the Renaissance courtier, statesman and political philosopher." —Roger Kimball, The Wall Street Journal 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, The Washington Times "[An] outstanding contribution to Machiavelli scholarship." — Choice "[A] brilliant interpretation . . . [Mansfield's] grip on the textual and contextual ramifications is little less than awe-inspiring." —Kenneth Minogue, Times Literary Supplement
From Humanism to Hobbes
Author: Quentin Skinner
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2018-01-25
Offers new insights into the works of Machiavelli, Shakespeare and especially Hobbes by focusing on their use of rhetoric.
Machiavelli's Ethics
Author: Erica Benner
language: en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date: 2009-10-26
Machiavelli's Ethics challenges the most entrenched understandings of Machiavelli, arguing that he was a moral and political philosopher who consistently favored the rule of law over that of men, that he had a coherent theory of justice, and that he did not defend the "Machiavellian" maxim that the ends justify the means. By carefully reconstructing the principled foundations of his political theory, Erica Benner gives the most complete account yet of Machiavelli's thought. She argues that his difficult and puzzling style of writing owes far more to ancient Greek sources than is usually recognized, as does his chief aim: to teach readers not how to produce deceptive political appearances and rhetoric, but how to see through them. Drawing on a close reading of Greek authors--including Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, and Plutarch--Benner identifies a powerful and neglected key to understanding Machiavelli. This important new interpretation is based on the most comprehensive study of Machiavelli's writings to date, including a detailed examination of all of his major works: The Prince, The Discourses, The Art of War, and Florentine Histories. It helps explain why readers such as Bacon and Rousseau could see Machiavelli as a fellow moral philosopher, and how they could view The Prince as an ethical and republican text. By identifying a rigorous structure of principles behind Machiavelli's historical examples, the book should also open up fresh debates about his relationship to later philosophers, including Rousseau, Hobbes, and Kant.