Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Machiavelli"
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Democratic Theory and the Question of Character
(2013-02-12)This dissertation uses the history of political thought to shed light on the disconnect between the prominent place of judgments about the character in American democratic life, and the marginalized place of those judgments ... -
Machiavelli, Civic Humanism, and the Humanist Politics of Virtue
(Maney Publishing, 2014)Modern studies of Italian humanist political thought emphasize the theme of republican liberty, but this conception has been understood in anachronistic ways and exaggerated in importance. Much more central is the problem ...