The Prince (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Couverture souple

Machiavelli, Niccolò

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1954525710 ISBN 13 : 9781954525719

Editeur : Warbler Classics, 2021

Synopsis

This Warbler Classics annotated edition includes:

• a detailed essay on the life of Machiavelli, and
• a history of political thought by Benedetto Croce.

The Prince is widely thought to be one of the first works of modern political philosophy. Machiavelli was the first to decisively divorce politics from ethics. His political realism influenced many important figures in the developing field of materialist philosophy, including Francis Bacon, John Milton, Spinoza, Rousseau, Hume, Edward Gibbon, and Adam Smith. His treatise had a profound impact on political leaders throughout the modern west, including the founding fathers of the United States who, like Machiavelli, favored a republican form of government.

Machiavelli emphasized the need for looking at the “effective truth” based on experience and historical fact, rather than theorizing about ideal republics or imaginary utopias. Controversial for advancing an amoral view of the world where any means are justified if they serve the ambitions of power, The Prince also ironically seems to undermine its own doctrine by predicting in some ways the doom of a strictly realist approach.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469–1527) was an Italian diplomat, philosopher, and historian. He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science.

Benedetto Croce (1866–1952) was an Italian idealist philosopher, historian, and politician who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature sixteen times. He is also notable for his major contributions to the rebirth of Italian democracy.

“We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.”
—Francis Bacon

"I believe that the following would be the true way to go to Paradise: learn the way to Hell in order to steer clear of it.”
—Machiavelli, Letter to Francesco Guicciardini

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469-1527) was an Italian diplomat, philosopher, and historian. He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science.

Benedetto Croce (1866-1952) was an Italian idealist philosopher, historian, and politician who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature sixteen times. He is also notable for his major contributions to the rebirth of Italian democracy.

William K. Marriott was a translator of many Renaissance works, including Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Warbler Classics
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1954525710
• ISBN 13: 9781954525719
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 114
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