Format:
1 online resource (234 pages)
ISBN:
9781438457222
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Value of Patriotism -- The Final Chapter -- The Need to Develop Civic Virtù -- The Role of Virtù -- The Nature of the World -- The Requirements of Personal Identity -- The Importance of Personal Security -- The Quest for Deserved Glory -- The Significance of the Value of Patriotism -- Churchill and Coventry -- Iran-Contra -- Chapter 2 Religion and Morality -- The Values and Uses of Religion -- Refashioning God and Religion in Service of Patriotism -- Patriotism, Religion, and the Condition of a Person's Soul -- Machiavelli's Morality -- The Popular View of Machiavelli on Morality -- Justifications and Excuses -- Machiavelli's Corollary Principle of Morality -- Chapter 3 The Problem of Dirty Hands -- How Political Hands Get Dirty -- Moral Theory and the Problem of Dirty Hands -- Machiavelli and Dirty Hands -- Case Study in Dirty Hands: President Truman -- Partial Excuses -- Is Machiavelli's Doctrine Abhorrent? -- Evaluating Military and Political Leaders -- Gaius Julius Caesar (100 BCE-44 BCE) -- Oliverotto Euffreducci (Oliverotto da Fermo), CA. 1475-1502 -- Agathocles of Syracuse, 361 BCE-289 BCE -- Girolamo Savonarola, 1452-1498 -- Piero Soderini, 1450-1513 -- Giovampagolo Baglioni, 1470-1520 -- Cesare Borgia ("Duke Valentino"), 1475-1507 -- Romulus, CA. 770 BCE-CA. 716 BCE -- Lucius Junius Brutus, CA. 545 BCE-CA. 509 BCE -- Numa Pompilius, CA. 750 BCE-CA. 673 BCE -- Hiero II, 308 BCE-216 BCE -- Hannibal, CA. 247 BCE-183 BCE -- Chapter 4 The Soul of the Statesman -- Piecing the Clues Together -- The Inner Life of a Machiavellian Statesman -- Why Should a Statesman Worry about Losing His Soul? -- The Puzzle Completed -- Guicciardini's Critique -- Machiavelli's Legacy -- Appendix A: Texts and Their Abbreviations -- References -- Abbreviations for Book Titles.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781438457215
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781438457215
Language:
English
