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The Enduring Ambiguity of Machiavellian Virtue: Cruelty, Crime, and Christianity in The Prince - Social Research: An International Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 81, Number 1, Spring 2014
- pp. 133-164
- 10.1353/sor.2014.0001
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Abstract
Machiavelli's The Prince is famous for recommending that aspiring princes rely as much as possible on their own virtue rather than on fortune in the acquisition, maintenance and expansion of their states. Through an analysis of the examples of Cesare Borgia, Agathocles the Sicilian and Liverotto of Fermo in The Prince, this article elaborates the extent to which Machiavelli thought that resort to crime was a necessary aspect of virtue and the expect to which Christianity was hindrance to the princely practice of virtue in the modern world.
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