Vickie Sullivan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3921469 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Vickie Sullivan |
| NOMBRES | Vickie |
| APELLIDO | Sullivan |
| FIRMA | SULLIVAN V |
| AFILIACIONES | Tufts University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-3509-4707 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Montesquieu on Legislators and as a Legislator
Examination of Montesquieu’s treatment of legislators in his Spirit of the Laws provides a new perspective on the scholarly debate as to whether Montesquieu approaches the global diversity he documents there with the attitude of a particularist or of a universalist. As he reveals that previous philosophic writers have served as legislators, so he himself becomes one; Montesquieu offers, in Book 12, a table of laws and corresponding punishments. T…
Machiavelli’s Roman and Persian Empires
Machiavelli appeals to the example of the Persian Empire when treating the Roman republic’s rise to power, method of rule, and decline into tyranny. When considering how Rome subjugated its neighboring cities in the Discourses on Livy, he insists that Rome used fraud in a manner akin to the Cyrus of Xenophon’s depiction; both came to power from humble beginnings through duplicity. In The Prince, Machiavelli traces how the Roman republic left a pa…
The Humanists, Empires, and the Rule of Political Education
It is a great honor and pleasure for me to participate in this forum to discuss James Hankins’s most impressive and significant book, Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy with these distinguished scholars. My commission is to discuss the themes of empire and cosmopolitanism as they come to light in this book.An endorsement of a vast empire would point to its unification of disparate peoples in a form of comity that quell…
Straumann’s Roman constitutionalism and Machiavelli’s commentary on the Roman Republic
This article examines the important contributions to the scholarship of Benjamin Straumann’s Crisis and Constitutionalism: Roman Political Thought from the Fall of the Republic to the Age of Revolution. Straumann argues that Cicero elaborated a notion of constitutionalism that contains important proto-liberal ideas. In focusing so intently on tracing the appeal to natural rights in constitutional thinking, Straumann excludes from his analysis imp…
Catherine Zuckert on Machiavelli's New Understanding of Politics
Catherine Zuckert's Machiavelli's Politics offers an unprecedented interpretation of all of Machiavelli's major works. Her interpretation places Machiavelli in his historical context as he understood it and shows Machiavelli seeking a populist alternative in politics. Because her approach and her conclusion have been championed by scholars explicitly opposed to Strauss's interpretation of Machiavelli, she intervenes in the scholarly debates on Ma…
The Ages of American Law
“[Gilmore’s book is] an expanded version of lectures on the development of American law delivered at Yale Law School, where he teaches. The lectures (now essays) convey a highly original, and personal, view of that development, and like the personality who set them down they are sharp, opinionated, and as pungent as cheddar.”— The New Republic “Gilmore offers us, in readily digestible form, the benefits of a lifetime of legal scholarship, with an…
Modernity and Tyranny
Waller R. Newell in Tyrants: A History of Power, Injustice, and Terror explores how ideas, and the philosophers responsible for them, can aid us in understanding tyranny. In the process, Newell also broaches the possibility that the ideas of these thinkers actually shape succeeding political events. Although the second part, entitled “City of God or City of Man? The Tyrant as Modern State Builder,” has an extensive cast of characters, its fulcrum…
Montesquieu's Teaching on the Dangers of Extreme Corrections
Explicitly and implicitly inThe Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu binds together the Japanese who persecute Christians and the Inquisitors of Catholicism who persecute heretics. In seeking purity, both sets of vehement reformers impose atrocious punishments. In so binding the abuses of the East and West together, the work is an expression neither of Orientalism nor of Eurocentrism as conventionally understood. Although Montesquieu thus offers a cri…
Spectacles and Sociability
Scholars have pointed to Montesquieu's influence on Rousseau's work generally. Other scholars, who focus more intently on the Letter to d'Alembert, discern a crucial but limited influence of Montesquieu in two of Rousseau's teachings there: first, that some practices, including the theatre, can be appropriate and even wholesome for some societies, while noxious for others; and second, that mores are important in determining what types of laws and…
Alexander the Great as “Lord of Asia” and Rome as His Successor in Machiavelli's Prince
Alexander the Great and his legacy suffuse The Prince, a fact that has received little attention. Machiavelli uses Alexander to illustrate the form of rule in which one is lord and all others are slaves. In recounting the Roman Republic's conquest of Greece, Machiavelli treats Alexander's vanquished successors. Alexander's legacy enters Rome itself, igniting in Romans the desire to subject the world to sole preeminence. According to Machiavelli, …
Walter Moyle's Machiavellianism, declared and otherwise, in An Essay upon the Constitution of the Roman Government
Walter Moyle's work, An Essay upon the Constitution of the Roman Government, is much more Machiavellian than it initially announces itself to be. Informed by James Harrington's and Niccolò Machiavelli's earlier commentaries on Rome, Moyle readily embraces that on which both of his predecessors agree—the desirability of a republic that seeks armed increase. Harrington, though, explicitly disagrees with Machiavelli's embrace of a tumultuous republi…
Machiavelli's Ethics
To read Machiavelli not as a Machiavellian, but rather as something much more morally justifiable, has had a long and distinguished history. Many commentators have argued in attempts to burnish Old Nick's reputation that the notorious Florentine is, in fact, a patriot, an objective scientist of politics, one in a long line of civic humanists, a populist, or a committed republican who satirizes the nefarious ways of monarchs. James Harrington, who…
The Comedy and Tragedy of Machiavelli
Italian statesman and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, well known as the author of Prince, wrote not only grave, cold-blooded political tracts but also comedies, poems, fables, and letters that are seemingly lighthearted. What are we to make of the two extremes in Machiavelli's writings? This volume brings together outstanding scholars in the fields of literature, political science, and history to explore the meanings of Machiavelli's lite…
Machiavelli's Virtue. Harvey C. Mansfield
Patricide and the Plot ofThe Prince
An understanding of Machiavelli's assessment of Cesare Borgia inThe Princeis essential for interpreting his view of politics, but the ambiguity of that assessment has led to vastly different conclusions about Machiavelli's political teaching and Cesare's significance. We approach Machiavelli's ultimate intentions through a consideration of his more immediate concern for Italy. Machiavelli's great interest in Cesare and his criticism of this poten…
Neither Christian nor Pagan
Is Machiavelli to be understood as entirely sympathetic to either Christianity or paganism? This article examines the Discourses, the work in which Machiavelli praises paganism most lavishly, and argues that Machiavelli actually criticizes paganism for engendering Christianity. To overcome the politically deleterious consequences of Christianity, the author goes on to contend, Machiavelli appeals to certain Christian doctrines-entirely divorced f…
Machiavelli's Momentary “Machiavellian Moment
Ages of American Law
Machiavelli's Momentary “Machiavellian Moment
Patricide and the Plot ofThe Prince
An understanding of Machiavelli's assessment of Cesare Borgia inThe Princeis essential for interpreting his view of politics, but the ambiguity of that assessment has led to vastly different conclusions about Machiavelli's political teaching and Cesare's significance. We approach Machiavelli's ultimate intentions through a consideration of his more immediate concern for Italy. Machiavelli's great interest in Cesare and his criticism of this poten…
Alexander the Great as “Lord of Asia” and Rome as His Successor in Machiavelli's Prince
Alexander the Great and his legacy suffuse The Prince, a fact that has received little attention. Machiavelli uses Alexander to illustrate the form of rule in which one is lord and all others are slaves. In recounting the Roman Republic's conquest of Greece, Machiavelli treats Alexander's vanquished successors. Alexander's legacy enters Rome itself, igniting in Romans the desire to subject the world to sole preeminence. According to Machiavelli, …
Catherine Zuckert on Machiavelli's New Understanding of Politics
Catherine Zuckert's Machiavelli's Politics offers an unprecedented interpretation of all of Machiavelli's major works. Her interpretation places Machiavelli in his historical context as he understood it and shows Machiavelli seeking a populist alternative in politics. Because her approach and her conclusion have been championed by scholars explicitly opposed to Strauss's interpretation of Machiavelli, she intervenes in the scholarly debates on Ma…
Montesquieu's Teaching on the Dangers of Extreme Corrections
Explicitly and implicitly inThe Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu binds together the Japanese who persecute Christians and the Inquisitors of Catholicism who persecute heretics. In seeking purity, both sets of vehement reformers impose atrocious punishments. In so binding the abuses of the East and West together, the work is an expression neither of Orientalism nor of Eurocentrism as conventionally understood. Although Montesquieu thus offers a cri…
Spectacles and Sociability
Scholars have pointed to Montesquieu's influence on Rousseau's work generally. Other scholars, who focus more intently on the Letter to d'Alembert, discern a crucial but limited influence of Montesquieu in two of Rousseau's teachings there: first, that some practices, including the theatre, can be appropriate and even wholesome for some societies, while noxious for others; and second, that mores are important in determining what types of laws and…
Neither Christian nor Pagan
Is Machiavelli to be understood as entirely sympathetic to either Christianity or paganism? This article examines the Discourses, the work in which Machiavelli praises paganism most lavishly, and argues that Machiavelli actually criticizes paganism for engendering Christianity. To overcome the politically deleterious consequences of Christianity, the author goes on to contend, Machiavelli appeals to certain Christian doctrines-entirely divorced f…
Ages of American Law
Machiavelli's Momentary “Machiavellian Moment
Neither Christian nor Pagan
Is Machiavelli to be understood as entirely sympathetic to either Christianity or paganism? This article examines the Discourses, the work in which Machiavelli praises paganism most lavishly, and argues that Machiavelli actually criticizes paganism for engendering Christianity. To overcome the politically deleterious consequences of Christianity, the author goes on to contend, Machiavelli appeals to certain Christian doctrines-entirely divorced f…
Patricide and the Plot ofThe Prince
An understanding of Machiavelli's assessment of Cesare Borgia inThe Princeis essential for interpreting his view of politics, but the ambiguity of that assessment has led to vastly different conclusions about Machiavelli's political teaching and Cesare's significance. We approach Machiavelli's ultimate intentions through a consideration of his more immediate concern for Italy. Machiavelli's great interest in Cesare and his criticism of this poten…
Machiavelli's Virtue. Harvey C. Mansfield
The Comedy and Tragedy of Machiavelli
Italian statesman and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, well known as the author of Prince, wrote not only grave, cold-blooded political tracts but also comedies, poems, fables, and letters that are seemingly lighthearted. What are we to make of the two extremes in Machiavelli's writings? This volume brings together outstanding scholars in the fields of literature, political science, and history to explore the meanings of Machiavelli's lite…
Machiavelli's Ethics
To read Machiavelli not as a Machiavellian, but rather as something much more morally justifiable, has had a long and distinguished history. Many commentators have argued in attempts to burnish Old Nick's reputation that the notorious Florentine is, in fact, a patriot, an objective scientist of politics, one in a long line of civic humanists, a populist, or a committed republican who satirizes the nefarious ways of monarchs. James Harrington, who…
Walter Moyle's Machiavellianism, declared and otherwise, in An Essay upon the Constitution of the Roman Government
Walter Moyle's work, An Essay upon the Constitution of the Roman Government, is much more Machiavellian than it initially announces itself to be. Informed by James Harrington's and Niccolò Machiavelli's earlier commentaries on Rome, Moyle readily embraces that on which both of his predecessors agree—the desirability of a republic that seeks armed increase. Harrington, though, explicitly disagrees with Machiavelli's embrace of a tumultuous republi…
Alexander the Great as “Lord of Asia” and Rome as His Successor in Machiavelli's Prince
Alexander the Great and his legacy suffuse The Prince, a fact that has received little attention. Machiavelli uses Alexander to illustrate the form of rule in which one is lord and all others are slaves. In recounting the Roman Republic's conquest of Greece, Machiavelli treats Alexander's vanquished successors. Alexander's legacy enters Rome itself, igniting in Romans the desire to subject the world to sole preeminence. According to Machiavelli, …
Spectacles and Sociability
Scholars have pointed to Montesquieu's influence on Rousseau's work generally. Other scholars, who focus more intently on the Letter to d'Alembert, discern a crucial but limited influence of Montesquieu in two of Rousseau's teachings there: first, that some practices, including the theatre, can be appropriate and even wholesome for some societies, while noxious for others; and second, that mores are important in determining what types of laws and…
The Ages of American Law
“[Gilmore’s book is] an expanded version of lectures on the development of American law delivered at Yale Law School, where he teaches. The lectures (now essays) convey a highly original, and personal, view of that development, and like the personality who set them down they are sharp, opinionated, and as pungent as cheddar.”— The New Republic “Gilmore offers us, in readily digestible form, the benefits of a lifetime of legal scholarship, with an…
Modernity and Tyranny
Waller R. Newell in Tyrants: A History of Power, Injustice, and Terror explores how ideas, and the philosophers responsible for them, can aid us in understanding tyranny. In the process, Newell also broaches the possibility that the ideas of these thinkers actually shape succeeding political events. Although the second part, entitled “City of God or City of Man? The Tyrant as Modern State Builder,” has an extensive cast of characters, its fulcrum…
Montesquieu's Teaching on the Dangers of Extreme Corrections
Explicitly and implicitly inThe Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu binds together the Japanese who persecute Christians and the Inquisitors of Catholicism who persecute heretics. In seeking purity, both sets of vehement reformers impose atrocious punishments. In so binding the abuses of the East and West together, the work is an expression neither of Orientalism nor of Eurocentrism as conventionally understood. Although Montesquieu thus offers a cri…
Straumann’s Roman constitutionalism and Machiavelli’s commentary on the Roman Republic
This article examines the important contributions to the scholarship of Benjamin Straumann’s Crisis and Constitutionalism: Roman Political Thought from the Fall of the Republic to the Age of Revolution. Straumann argues that Cicero elaborated a notion of constitutionalism that contains important proto-liberal ideas. In focusing so intently on tracing the appeal to natural rights in constitutional thinking, Straumann excludes from his analysis imp…
Catherine Zuckert on Machiavelli's New Understanding of Politics
Catherine Zuckert's Machiavelli's Politics offers an unprecedented interpretation of all of Machiavelli's major works. Her interpretation places Machiavelli in his historical context as he understood it and shows Machiavelli seeking a populist alternative in politics. Because her approach and her conclusion have been championed by scholars explicitly opposed to Strauss's interpretation of Machiavelli, she intervenes in the scholarly debates on Ma…
The Humanists, Empires, and the Rule of Political Education
It is a great honor and pleasure for me to participate in this forum to discuss James Hankins’s most impressive and significant book, Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy with these distinguished scholars. My commission is to discuss the themes of empire and cosmopolitanism as they come to light in this book.An endorsement of a vast empire would point to its unification of disparate peoples in a form of comity that quell…
Montesquieu on Legislators and as a Legislator
Examination of Montesquieu’s treatment of legislators in his Spirit of the Laws provides a new perspective on the scholarly debate as to whether Montesquieu approaches the global diversity he documents there with the attitude of a particularist or of a universalist. As he reveals that previous philosophic writers have served as legislators, so he himself becomes one; Montesquieu offers, in Book 12, a table of laws and corresponding punishments. T…
Machiavelli’s Roman and Persian Empires
Machiavelli appeals to the example of the Persian Empire when treating the Roman republic’s rise to power, method of rule, and decline into tyranny. When considering how Rome subjugated its neighboring cities in the Discourses on Livy, he insists that Rome used fraud in a manner akin to the Cyrus of Xenophon’s depiction; both came to power from humble beginnings through duplicity. In The Prince, Machiavelli traces how the Roman republic left a pa…
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