TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mansfield,Harvey Claflin
TI  - Machiavelli's virtue
SN  - 9780226503721 (electronic bk.)
AV  - JC143.M4 M355 1996eb
U1  - 320.1/092 22
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Machiavelli, Niccolò,
KW  - Politics
KW  - Italy
KW  - History
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Morals
KW  - Ethics
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Government
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - National
KW  - Reference
KW  - Essays
KW  - Politieke ideeën
KW  - gtt
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-360) and index; 1. Machiavelli's Virtue -- 2. Necessity in the Beginnings of Cities -- 3. Burke and Machiavelli on Principles in Politics -- 4. Machiavelli and the Idea of Progress -- 5. An Introduction to Machiavelli's Florentine Histories -- 6. Party and Sect in Machiavelli's Florentine Histories -- 7. An Introduction to The Prince -- 8. An Introduction to Machiavelli's Art of War -- 9. Strauss's Machiavelli -- 10. Machiavelli's New Regime -- 11. Machiavelli's Political Science -- 12. Machiavelli's Stato and the Impersonal Modern State -- 13. Machiavelli and the Modern Executive
N2  - Machiavelli's Virtue is a comprehensive statement on the founder of modern politics. Harvey C. Mansfield begins by analyzing Machiavelli's radical notion of virtue, which culminates in his own personal virtue. Machiavelli shows that princes need a new morality that only he has supplied. Mansfield argues that Machiavelli intended to rule the world through his thought; though a prince without a state, his subjects were the princes who would follow his writings on founding and ruling. This new "perpetual republic" is Machiavelli's own sect - and a remedy for the failures of all previous republics; Mansfield reveals the role of sects in Machiavelli's politics, his advice on how to rule indirectly, and the ultimately partisan character of his project. Following the method of Leo Strauss, he takes up Machiavelli's individual works as wholes and shows him to be the founder of modern institutions that came later, such as the impersonal state and the energetic executive. Mansfield thus makes the case that Machiavelli is alive for us and full of the wisdom we need. His thought cannot be dismissed as quaint and obsolete; it is disturbingly relevant for our delusions and our complacency
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