Citizen Machiavelli (ePub)
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Machiavelli has been viewed as the forerunner of the humanists of our day, liberals and socialists, who have discovered that moral ends sometimes require immoral means. Against this interpretation, Mark Hulliung argues that Machiavelli’s “humanism,” was...
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Machiavelli has been viewed as the forerunner of the humanists of our day, liberals and socialists, who have discovered that moral ends sometimes require immoral means. Against this interpretation, Mark Hulliung argues that Machiavelli’s “humanism,” was rooted in classical notions of grandeur and greatness, and that his prime reason for admiring the ancient Roman republic was that it conquered the world. In short, Machiavelli was at his most Machiavellian precisely when he voiced his “civic humanism.”
Hulliung argues that Machiavelli’s embrace of fraud and violence cannot be justified by patriotism or a professed concern with the common good. He indicts Machiavelli’s use and abuse of history in the service of his cynical agenda—the quest for power. Hulliung sees Machiavelli as a republican imperialist, embracing the heroic pagan virtues and consciously subverting the humanistic tradition of Cicero, and the religious morality of Christianity, with an intentionally skewed interpretation of republican Rome.
By inverting the Stoical and Christian elements of the classics, Machiavelli made the humanistic tradition give birth to Machiavellism, its terrible child. Hulliung’s thesis is convincing, and his book is a valuable contribution to the debate on Machiavellian thought.
Hulliung argues that Machiavelli’s embrace of fraud and violence cannot be justified by patriotism or a professed concern with the common good. He indicts Machiavelli’s use and abuse of history in the service of his cynical agenda—the quest for power. Hulliung sees Machiavelli as a republican imperialist, embracing the heroic pagan virtues and consciously subverting the humanistic tradition of Cicero, and the religious morality of Christianity, with an intentionally skewed interpretation of republican Rome.
By inverting the Stoical and Christian elements of the classics, Machiavelli made the humanistic tradition give birth to Machiavellism, its terrible child. Hulliung’s thesis is convincing, and his book is a valuable contribution to the debate on Machiavellian thought.
Autoren-Porträt von Mark Hulliung
Mark Hulliung is Richard Koret Professor of the History of Ideas at Brandeis University. He is the author of The Autocritique of Enlightenment, available from Transaction.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Mark Hulliung
- 2014, 266 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Transaction Publishers
- ISBN-10: 1412854520
- ISBN-13: 9781412854528
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.09.2014
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