March 1978

From the pastoral of souls to the political government of men. ∼ General context of this transformation: the crisis of the pastorate and the insurrections of conduct in the sixteenth century. The Protestant Reformation and the Counter Reformation. Other factors. ∼ Two notable phenomena: the intensification of the religious pastorate and the increasing question of conduct, on both private and public levels. ∼ Governmental reason specific to the exercise of sovereignty. ∼ Comparison with Saint Thomas. ∼ Break-up of the cosmological-theological continuum. The question of the art of governing. ∼ ’ Comment on the problem of intelligibility in history. ∼ Raison d’Etat (1): newness and object of scandal. ∼, Threefocal points of the polemical debate around raison d’Etat: Machiavelli , “ politics ” (la “politique”), and the “ state.” These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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