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Thoughts on Machiavelli (Paperback, New edition)
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Thoughts on Machiavelli (Paperback, New edition)
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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 the "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 doing justice to
what is truly admirable in Machiavelli: the intrepidity of his
thought, the grandeur of his vision, and the graceful subtlety of
his speech." This critique of the founder of modern political
philosophy by this prominent twentieth-century scholar is an
essential text for students of both authors.
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