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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Machiavelli"”.
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American Machiavelli: Samuel P. Huntington the Author of Grand Strategy
<p>Samuel P. Huntington was one of the most influential political scientists of the 20th century, authoring a series of influential “concepts” and “paradigms” that have had tremendous impact on both scholarship and political practice. Historians have made great efforts to chart the anomalous, …
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Early modern masters of suspicion
This thesis interprets Niccolò Machiavelli, Michel de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, and John Milton, casting them as Masters of Suspicion. The category of ‘Master of Suspicion’ was introduced by Ricœur (1970) to describe how Marx, Nietzsche and Freud approached their respective economic, …
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The autonomy of the political
… The arguments I examine are those of Niccol6 Machiavelli, Jean Bodin, Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and John Rawls. After presenting what I believe to be the most plausible reconstructions of these arguments for the autonomy of the political, I conclude that none of these arguments succeed in …
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Philosopher Kings, Then and Now: The Political Philosophy of IQ
… the role of intelligence for Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, and contemporary psychometricians. Whereas intelligence has a moral dimension for the classical philosophers, Machiavelli emphasized the use of prudence in the service of ambition. Contemporary psychometrics presents intelligence as a …
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La mandragola
The current best-selling bilingual edition of Machiavelli’s plays, The Comedies of Machiavelli, edited by David Sices and James B. Atkinson, contains several errors, mistranslations, and historical inaccuracies. Though Sices claims fidelity to Machiavelli’s texts in his introduction, my experience …
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Fostering Global Security: Nonviolent Resistance and US Foreign Policy
… owes a debt not just to Kant but also to Machiavelli, with a slight twist. While Nicoló Machiavelli argued that political leaders must learn how "not to be good" I am arguing that they must learn how to be good, or, at least, to be less violent in their pursuit of political change.</p>
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Pietro Bembo’s Bias: Patronage, History, and the Italic Wars
… His contemporaries, Marino Sanudo, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Francesco Guicciardini, also wrote historical accounts of this time. My research spotlights Bembo’s history of the Venetian Republic. This history was written in a supposedly objective fashion, yet, scholarship shows that historical …
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Il "De Principatu" e gli altri scritti: Machiavellismo e metodo nel pensiero politico di L. Ducci
… questo lavoro è dimostrare come il pensiero del Machiavelli influenzi, seppur in maniera velata, l opera del Ducci e quindi, di conseguenza, come esso paradossalmente informi di sé anche quella produzione politica successiva alla Controriforma all interno della quale va ascritto il "De …
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Ambivalent Sovereignty: Inquiries into the Dual Foundation of Political Realism's Subject
… legitimately dividing itself--against itself. Machiavelli but particularly also other realists such as Hannah Arendt, Max Weber, and Aristotle are being reinterpreted to demonstrate why each state's ultimate authority may symbiotically emerge from its self-divisions, rather than from one …
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The neo-Roman conception of freedom in developmentalism: A historical perspective
… of the free state as formulated by Niccolò Machiavelli – sees in national sovereignty the path to securing individual freedoms. Also discussed is why developmentalism, through history, has aimed at industrialisation of countries in the periphery. This paper suggests that the answer is more …
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Ibn Khaldun and the Modern Social Sciences: A Comparative Theoretical Inquiry into Society, the State, and Revolution
… pantheon of Western social science: Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, and Hegel. Such comparison is necessary, I believe, to emphasize the vast contextual differences among the authors while simultaneously highlighting their many theoretical similarities. By doing so, I demonstrate both …
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Commonwealth of republics : the lost republican history of Australia and Canada
… Harrington, Milton, Cromwell and ultimately, Machiavelli, Cicero and Aristotle. While acknowledging the place of Lockean liberalism, this thesis concludes that for many reform leaders and papers, the emphasis was on collectivism and communalism not the advancement of personal rights and …
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Commonwealth of republics : the lost republican history of Australia and Canada
… Harrington, Milton, Cromwell and ultimately, Machiavelli, Cicero and Aristotle. While acknowledging the place of Lockean liberalism, this thesis concludes that for many reform leaders and papers, the emphasis was on collectivism and communalism not the advancement of personal rights and …
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A Structuralist Controversy: Althusser and Lacan on Ideology
… in some of his posthumously published texts on Machiavelli. I examine convergences and divergences in their attempts to theorize a politics of civility.</p>
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A dialectical discourse on Responsible Business Behaviour within Small Medium Enterprises: A Case Study of Pakistan
… of Classical antiquities - Kant, Adam Smith and Machiavelli, which bridged the gap between theory and CSR driven practice.
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'The Slaves of Chance': Aspects of the Exposition of Change in Some of Shakepeare's Works and their Sources
… Samuel Daniel's The Civil ~ and the influence of Machiavelli. In Chapter Three a discussion of the preoccupation of Euphuistic fictions with the forces that bear upon youth (the opposing attractions of the Active and Contemplative lives, the assaults of Fortune) centres on Greene's Pandosto and …
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Giovanni Botero and English Political Thought
… and commerce (Chapter III); and responses to Machiavelli (Chapter IV). Each of these chapters examine Botero’s contributions to these themes, other contemporary authors whom he was read alongside, and how and why people were reading him to speak to these debates. Ultimately, the backdrop to …
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Republicanism and stoicism in Renaissance neo-Senecan drama.
… well as contemporary theorists, such as Niccolo Machiavelli and Justus Lipsius inform these discourses. This form of drama also offered the authors a space to interrogate the practical utility of a number of theories from a variety of perspectives, indicating that the plays are in dialogue with …
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Rhetoric and reality in American political pluralism : Jackson-Calhoun controversy in perspective
… historians, social scientists, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Locke -- it is James Madison who perhaps more than any other single individual gave shape to American conflict in his modeling the American constitutional system. He held the conflict is built into the very nature of man, and thus a …
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Rex prudens et sapiens. Semantica della regalità negli specula principum d'epoca tardomedievale (secoli XII-XV)
… alla ‘ridescrizione’ del codice etico operata da Machiavelli. Indagando i progressivi ampliamenti del campo semantico sorto attorno al nome della virtù di prudenza entro la letteratura speculare, la ricerca mostra come il dialettico rapporto con i lessemi di sapientia, astutia, fides ed …
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