Thoughts on Machiavelli
The esteemed philosopher's assessment of good, evil, and the value of Machiavelli. Leo Strauss argued that the most visible fact about Machiavelli's doctrine is also the most useful one: Machiavelli seems to be a teacher of wickedness. Strauss sought to incorporate this idea in his interpretation without permitting it to overwhelm or exhaust his exegesis of The Prince and Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy. We are in sympathy, he writes, with the simple opinion about Machiavelli [namely, the wickedness of his teaching], not only because it is wholesome, but above all because a failure to take that opinion seriously prevents one from…
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- ISBN: 978-0-226-23097-9
- EAN: 9780226230979
- Produktnummer: 33638247
- Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 348 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 462 KB
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