Even into recent times, some scholars, such as Leo Strauss, have restated the traditional opinion that Machiavelli was a "teacher of evil". Others view the Prince as a manual, teaching would-be tyrants how they should seize and maintain power. Some consider it to be a straightforward description of political reality. Machiavelli's Prince has been surrounded by controversy since it was published. He also notably said that a ruler who is establishing a kingdom or a republic, and is criticized for his deeds, including violence, should be excused when the intention and the result are beneficial to him. He claimed that his experience and reading of history showed him that politics have always been played with deception, treachery, and crime.
He worked as secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power.Īfter his death Machiavelli's name came to evoke unscrupulous acts of the sort he advised most famously in his work, The Prince. His personal correspondence is also important to historians and scholars of Italian correspondence. He wrote comedies, carnival songs, and poetry. įor many years he served as a senior official in the Florentine Republic with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs. He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science. He is best known for his political treatise The Prince ( Il Principe), written around 1513 but not published until 1532. Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli ( / ˌ m æ k i ə ˈ v ɛ l i/ MAK-ee-ə- VEL-ee, US also / ˌ m ɑː k-/ MAHK-, Italian: – 21 June 1527), was an Italian diplomat, author, philosopher and historian who lived during the Renaissance. Schelling, Negri, Waltz, Denis Diderot, Carl Schmitt, Giulio Andreotti, Philip Pettit, Strauss, Weber, Sismondi, Hannah Arendt
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