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024 7 _a10.1515/9781400831845
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400831845
035 _a(DE-B1597)446993
035 _a(OCoLC)979579135
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082 0 4 _a170.92
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBenner, Erica
_eautore
245 1 0 _aMachiavelli's Ethics /
_cErica Benner.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2009]
264 4 _c©2010
300 _a1 online resource
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505 0 0 _t Frontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tAbbreviations --
_tIntroduction --
_tI Contexts --
_tChapter 1. Civil Reasonings: Machiavelli's Practical Filosofia --
_tChapter 2. Ancient Sources: Dissimulation in Greek Ethics --
_tII. Foundations --
_tChapter 3. Imitation and Knowledge --
_tChapter 4. Necessity and Virtue --
_tChapter 5. Human Nature and Human Orders --
_tIII. Principles --
_tChapter 6. Free Agency and Desires for Freedom --
_tChapter 7. Free Orders --
_tChapter 8. Justice and Injustice --
_tChapter 9. Ends and Means --
_tIV Politics --
_tChapter 10. Ordinary and Extraordinary Authority --
_tChapter 11. Legislators and Princes --
_tChapter 12. Expansion and Empire --
_tConclusions --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aMachiavelli'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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
650 0 _aEthics.
650 0 _aPhilosophy
_vEthics and amp
_xMoral Philosophy.
650 0 _aPhilosophy
_vSocial.
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern.
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