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Machiavelli's Virtue (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
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Machiavelli's Virtue (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
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Machiavelli's Virtue is a comprehensive statement on the founder of
modern politics. Harvey C. Mansfield begins by analyzing
Machiavelli's radical notion of virtue, which culminates in his own
personal virtue. Machiavelli shows that princes need a new morality
that only he has supplied. Mansfield argues that Machiavelli
intended to rule the world through his thought; though a prince
without a state, his subjects were the princes who would follow his
writings on founding and ruling. This new "perpetual republic" is
Machiavelli's own sect - and a remedy for the failures of all
previous republics. 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. Following the
method of Leo Strauss, he takes up Machiavelli's individual works
as wholes and shows him to be the founder of modern institutions
that came later, such as the impersonal state and the energetic
executive. Mansfield thus makes the case that Machiavelli is alive
for us and full of the wisdom we need. His thought cannot be
dismissed as quaint and obsolete; it is disturbingly relevant for
our delusions and our complacency.
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