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Kain, Philip J. "Niccolò Machiavelli — Adviser of Princes." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 25, no. 1 (1995): 33–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00455091.1995.10717403.

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In Plato's Republic, Socrates argued that true artisans work not in their own interest but for the good of that upon which they practice their art. So the true ruler is one who works for the good of the city or the citizens, not the ruler's own self-interest. Many would hold, with Leo Strauss, that Machiavelli contends the very opposite — that for him the true prince ruthlessly seeks self-interest and personal power. I think this is too simple a reading of Machiavelli.I do not want to argue that Machiavelli is not a Machiavellian — that he does not counsel evil. But I do want to argue that Mac

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Hoeppner Moran Cruz, Jo Ann. "Machiavelli’s Warning: The Medici, Florence, Rome and New Princes." History of Political Thought 45, no. 1 (2024): 15–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.53765/20512988.45.1.15.

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In his dedication to The Prince, Machiavelli places himself in the position of the people who can discern the nature of princes; his text, however, suggests that he also, like a prince, understands the nature of the people. This double vision informs the reader throughout, as Machiavelli warns the Medici of the dangers to their rule while informing the people as to the weakness of their regime. This article further investigates the positive reference to Pope Sixtus IV, a reference that could not have endeared Machiavelli to the Medici. It then explores The Prince’s discourse around Pope Alexan

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Mansfield, Harvey C. "Strauss onThe Prince." Review of Politics 75, no. 4 (2013): 641–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034670513000636.

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AbstractHere is a study of what Leo Strauss in his marvelous book,Thoughts on Machiavelli(1958), tells us about Machiavelli'sThe Prince, and how he tells it. The “how” is quite remarkable: his book is unlike any other book that has ever been written on Machiavelli. For the first time Machiavelli's esotericism is not only alluded to or introduced but explained at length. In explaining, Strauss shows how he arrived at his discoveries in Machiavelli's texts, teaching his readers the proper mixture of innocence and savvy. With his book Strauss gives a wholly new picture of an author who set store

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Byham, Jack Clinton. "Hank Morgan as Machiavellian Prince: A Reading of Twain’s Connecticut Yankee." Mark Twain Annual 22 (December 2024): 21–44. https://doi.org/10.5325/marktwaij.22.1.0021.

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Abstract The revolutionary protagonist in Twain’s Connecticut Yankee, Hank Morgan, is drawn in a way that suggests Samuel L. Clemens possessed a fulsome understanding of Machiavelli. A close reading of Hank’s conspiracy in Camelot, viewed through the lens of the Florentine, reveals Hank Morgan to be a daring Machiavellian prince. The novel can be read as an exploration and test of the idea that princely daring of the kind portrayed in Machiavelli’s Prince and Discourses can conquer fortune and achieve lasting and positive political change. Hank Morgan is a new prince in an old principality—and

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Stoškus, Mindaugas. "Machiavelli’s The Prince: How to Refute Virtue Ethics in Three Steps." Studia Philosophiae Christianae 59, no. 1 (2023): 31–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.21697/spch.2023.59.a.02.

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This article examines Niccolò Machiavelli’s account of virtues in his famous work The Prince. The Italian philosopher uses three different stages or steps of argumentation. All these steps are analyzed in this paper. It is argued that in each step, Machiavelli makes partial conclusions which are neglected in the next step. In the last step, Machiavelli concludes that not only some virtues lead to failure, but all virtues are harmful to a successful leader. Instead of an honest and just way of acting, Machiavelli proposes the slyness of a fox – the most effective and successful way of acting. C

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Gish, Dustin. "Effectual Truth and the Machiavellian Enterprise." Literature 5, no. 1 (2025): 6. https://doi.org/10.3390/literature5010006.

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The political philosophy of Niccolò Machiavelli has often been reduced to the statement that ‘the end justifies the means’ and understood as an expression of realpolitik as a result of his pragmatic, even ruthless, counsel to would-be princes, or political leaders. However, a more nuanced understanding of Machiavelli’s reflections on human nature in his writings, especially The Prince, reveals that there is a philosophic core within his approach to political success, the acquisition and maintenance of state. But while there is no doubt that Machiavelli openly rejected the idealism of certain a

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Haokai, Zhang. "Machiavelli’s Political Thought and Its Inspiration—Text Analysis Based on the Prince." Advances in Politics and Economics 5, no. 1 (2022): p33. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/ape.v5n1p33.

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Machiavelli is one of the founders of modern bourgeois political theory. The birth of his masterpiece The Prince creates a new pattern of western political thought, which marks the first time that political science has escaped from the bondage of religion and ethics. At the same time, Machiavelli is also named “Machiavelliism”. The so-called “no means to achieve the purpose” has become the greatest misunderstanding of Machiavelli. Based on the prince analysis of Machiavelli’s political thought, around his national unity of Italy launched the national regime, military, monarchy and other aspect

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Connell, William J. "Dating The Prince: Beginnings and Endings." Review of Politics 75, no. 4 (2013): 497–514. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034670513000557.

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Let's begin by presenting some newly discovered documents concerning Niccolò Machiavelli. The biographical detail may at first appear overwhelming, but the light these documents shed on the chronology of Machiavelli's composition of The Prince helps to answer some old questions concerning the character of Machiavelli's little treatise. The new documents date from the year 1515. They were drawn up at a time of financial difficulty and profound personal disappointment in the life of the former Florentine secretary and second chancellor. In 1512 Machiavelli had been fired from the chancery of the

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Dietz, Mary G. "Trapping the Prince: Machiavelli and the Politics of Deception." American Political Science Review 80, no. 3 (1986): 777–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1960538.

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Machiavelli's most famous political work, The Prince, was a masterful act of political deception. I argue that Machiavelli's intention was a republican one: to undo Lorenzo de Medici by giving him advice that would jeopardize his power, hasten his overthrow, and allow for the resurgence of the Florentine republic. This interpretation returns The Prince to its specific historical context. It considers Machiavelli's advice to Lorenzo on where to reside, how to behave, and whom to arm in light of the political reality of sixteenth-century Florence. Evidence external to The Prince, including Machi

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Zuckert, Catherine H. "Review Essay: Machiavelli: Radical Democratic Political Theorist?" Review of Politics 81, no. 3 (2019): 499–510. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034670519000275.

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John P. McCormick has become the leading proponent of a new democratic—or, now, “populist”—reading of Machiavelli. The authors of all three of the other books reviewed here cite McCormick as a source and inspiration; and he has written positive blurbs for their books. In Machiavellian Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2011) McCormick argued that Machiavelli's praise of Roman “offices or assemblies that exclude the wealthiest citizens from eligibility; magistrate appointment procedures that combine lottery and election; and political trials in which the entire citizenry acts as ultimate ju

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Machiavelli the Prince"

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Hahn, Nancy A. "Machiavelli's Prince: A renaissance pasquinade." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1264.

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Gendre, Xavier. "L'image du prince aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Transformations du concept de miroir des princes." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Paris Cité, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019UNIP5111.

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Cette thèse vise à expliquer l'évolution de l'image du prince, aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, au travers notamment des transformations du concept de « miroir des princes ». Issu du symbolisme de l'objet-miroir en morale et de sa métaphorisation en politique comme objet de représentation de l'idéal vertueux, le terme « miroir des princes » a évolué jusqu'à désigner, durant la période médiévale, un genre de littérature adressée au représentant du régime politique monarchique. Le genre littéraire des miroirs des princes - difficile à définir et à établir selon des critères fixes - s'est vu remettre e

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Sonnsjö, Hannes. "Bilden av Machiavelli – och motbilden. : En analys av Fursten och Republiken." Thesis, Örebro University, Department of Social and Political Sciences, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-7357.

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<p><em>This essay examines wether the prevailing opinion of Machiavelli as a prominent figure in political realism is correct or if the author is misinterpreted and can be said to represent something more. Thus, the puropse of this essay is to revise the description of Machiavelli given in widely used Swedish textbooks. This is done on the basis of a thesis saying that Machiavelli, judged not by his renowned book ‘The Prince’ (Fursten), but in the light of his extensive work ‘Discourses’ (Republiken), does not advocate a sovereign power but rather promote a pluralistic society. The method used

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Pallini, Germano. "Le moment machiavélien à Sienne : Bartolomeo Carli Piccolomini, lecteur immédiat du Prince et des Discours." Thesis, Paris 8, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA080132.

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Cette thèse propose la première biographie intellectuelle de Bartolomeo Carli Piccolomini,un personnage de premier plan de la culture et de la vie politique siennoise des années1525-1535. L’objectif de ce travail est d’offrir une contribution à deux questions cruciales de laculture de la Renaissance italienne : d’un côté, le développement des académies et lefonctionnement particulier de ces intellectuels collectifs ; de l’autre, les formes et les effets dedes premières lectures des oeuvres majeures de Machiavel, hors Florence, avant même leurpublication, en 1532, à Florence et à Rome. Les Anne

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Vikström, Dan. "Machiavelli’s virtú : Is virtú only for show?" Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-185321.

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Virtú has long been associated with manly traits like strength, cunning, valor, and ruthlessness. Much has been debated among these lines, whereas others have taken the approach of letting virtú and its meaning be undetermined. In this thesis a comparison between the different theoretical and practical meanings of Machiavelli’s teachings are discussed, with the conclusion being that there might be a case for virtú as being similar to showmanship, alternatively, an ingrained part of human nature. This conclusion is derived from comparison of different sources regarding Machiavelli’s works, with

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Pallini, Germano. "Le moment machiavélien à Sienne : Bartolomeo Carli Piccolomini, lecteur immédiat du Prince et des Discours." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA080132.

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Cette thèse propose la première biographie intellectuelle de Bartolomeo Carli Piccolomini,un personnage de premier plan de la culture et de la vie politique siennoise des années1525-1535. L’objectif de ce travail est d’offrir une contribution à deux questions cruciales de laculture de la Renaissance italienne : d’un côté, le développement des académies et lefonctionnement particulier de ces intellectuels collectifs ; de l’autre, les formes et les effets dedes premières lectures des oeuvres majeures de Machiavel, hors Florence, avant même leurpublication, en 1532, à Florence et à Rome. Les Anne

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Ion, Cristina. "L'"arte dello stato" chez Machiavel : une lecture du prince." Paris, EHESS, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001EHES0076.

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Santos, Daniel William da Silva. "Machiavelli e Castiglione: reflexos do Speculum Princeps no apogeu do renascimento." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2009. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/11823.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T17:27:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Daniel William da Silva Santos.pdf: 736281 bytes, checksum: 32a148fafc696dad08ac576fdcd21ed7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-09-30<br>Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo<br>The present research seeks to investigate the disparity reasons that comes out between Il Principe, of Niccolò Machiavelli, and the Book Fourth by Il Cortegiano, of Baldassare Castiglione, which is about the indicated behavior for the governing class that is looking for possession and power exercise; a fact that put such books inside th

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BIANCOLIN, DIEGO ALBERTO. "Dal machiavellismo al moderno Principe. Uno studio diacronico sul Machiavelli gramsciano." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Genova, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/11567/1098797.

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The aim of this work is that of providing a detailed account of the way in which the role played by Machiavelli within Gramsci’s thought changed over time. The analysis covers Gramsci’s entire production, starting from the years of his youth as a student and journalist (early 1910s) and ending with the last annotations of the Prison Notebooks (June 1935), showing how an interest whose roots were mainly historical in nature (e.g. with respect to the debate against Machiavellianism and anti-Machiavellianism) ended up in assuming a political form (i.e. the reflection on the modern Prince). The en

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Gerbier, Laurent. "Histoire, médecine et politique : les figures du temps dans le Prince et les Discours de Machiavel." Tours, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999TOUR2028.

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En cherchant à établir les principes pratiques selon lesquels un Etat peut être établi et conservé, Machiavel ne cesse d'affronter les variations de la fortune. Les savoirs qu'il construit ainsi pour raisonner de l'Etat sont donc des savoirs du temps, dans lesquels sont impliquées différentes figures dont nous avons cherché à comprendre les enjeux et les raisons. Ces figures sont tout d'abord celles du temps de l'histoire, dont Machiavel tire tout à la fois le principe d'une uniformité essentielle des conditions de la politique, et la matière de ses exemples destinés à enseigner au prince la m

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Books on the topic "Machiavelli the Prince"

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Clester, Shane. Machiavelli: The prince. Writers of the Round Table, 2011.

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Ratliff, Gerald Lee. Niccolò Machiavelli's The prince. Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 1986.

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Machiavelli, Niccolo. Machiavel: Le Prince. Nathan, 1990.

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Magedanz, Stacy. CliffsNotes on Machiavelli's The Prince. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2000.

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Machiavelli, Niccolò. Machiavelli: The Prince, selections from The Discourses and other writings. Fontana/Collins, 1989.

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1964-, Taylor Quentin P., ed. The other Machiavelli: Republican writings by the author of "The prince". University Press of America, 1998.

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translator, Afram Gabriel 1947, ред. ʼAmírā: The prince / Niccolò Machiavelli ; translated into Assyrian by Gabriel Afram. Författares Bokmaskin, 2021.

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Magedanz, Stacy. CliffsNotes The prince. Wiley Pub., 2003.

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Machiavelli, Niccolò, Quentin Skinner, and Russell Price. Machiavelli: The Prince. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

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Machiavelli, Niccolo. Machiavelli: The Prince. Edited by Quentin Skinner and Russell Price. Cambridge University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316536223.

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Book chapters on the topic "Machiavelli the Prince"

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Zwolinski, Matt, and Mario I. Juarez-Garcia. "Niccolò Machiavelli, “The Prince”." In Arguing About Political Philosophy, 3rd ed. Routledge, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003527152-38.

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Kibe, Takashi. "The Prince between Confucianism and Machiavellianism." In Machiavelli in Northeast Asia. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003284598-13.

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Landon, William. "Donald Trump, Niccolò Machiavelli, the Establishment, and the People: Words of Advice and Warning from The Prince." In Machiavelli in Contemporary Media. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73823-5_8.

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Ranum, Orest. "Machiavelli on Tyranny in the Prince and the Discourses." In Tyranny from Ancient Greece to Renaissance France. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43185-3_11.

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Barclay, Katie, and François Soyer. "Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469–1527), The Prince." In Emotions in Europe 1517–1914. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003175384-32.

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Aydoğdu, Nergiz Yılmaz. "Machiavelli Enters the Sublime Porte: The Introduction of The Prince to the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman World." In Machiavelli, Islam and the East. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53949-2_9.

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Tarcov, Nathan. "Machiavelli in The Prince: His Way of Life in Question." In Political Philosophy Cross-Examined. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137299635_8.

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Biasiori, Lucio. "Islamic Roots of Machiavelli’s Thought? The Prince and the Kitāb sirr al-asrār from Baghdad to and Back." In Machiavelli, Islam and the East. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53949-2_2.

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Benigni, Elisabetta. "Translating Machiavelli in : The Prince and the Shaping of a New Political Vocabulary in the Nineteenth-Century Arab Mediterranean." In Machiavelli, Islam and the East. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53949-2_10.

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Spanakos, Anthony Petros. "The Dark Prince of the Republic: Machiavelli, Batman, and Gotham City." In Politics in Gotham. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05776-3_7.

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Conference papers on the topic "Machiavelli the Prince"

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Neck, Reinhard. "POLITICS WITH AND WITHOUT ROMANCE: DANTE�S MONARCHIA VERSUS MACHIAVELLI�S IL PRINCIPE." In 9th SWS International Scientific Conferences on ART and HUMANITIES - ISCAH 2022. SGEM WORLD SCIENCE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35603/sws.iscah.2022/s03.02.

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This paper contrasts Monarchia by Dante Alighieri with Il Principe by Niccolo Machiavelli. It is argued that the Principe not only incorporates the realities of politics but is also superior to the Monarchia as a scientific work because it avoids the latter�s commitment to scholastic philosophy and has greater empirical relevance and logical consistency. Moreover, it can serve to some extent as a role model for an approach to a positive analysis of politics even today.

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