Machiavelli’s il Principe and the Politics of Glory

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6260076
AutoresDavid Owens (0000-0002-5080-2736)
Año2017
Volumen16
Número1
Páginas41-60
Fecha de publicación2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Journal of Political Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1474-8851 • E-ISSN: 1741-2730
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1474885114567346
OpenAlexW3125048616
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas18

This article offers a reading of Machiavelli’s il Principe and its relationship to his Discorsi which defends, first, the coherence of Machiavelli’s appeal to the figure of the one-man ordinatore and, second, a republican interpretation of il Principe. Its particular focus is on the pivotal role played in Machiavelli’s text-act by ‘love of worldly glory’. It is argued, first, that it is through love of glory that Machiavelli can coherently aim to produce an effective one-man ordinatore and, second, that the political education that il Principe provides to this figure leads them ineluctably to the conclusion that lasting glory can only be achieved through the foundation of a republic

Appeal · Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy · Glory · Interpretation (philosophy · Physics · Political science · Politics · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought