Machiavelli Niccolò

Discourses on Livy

Commentary on republican government and the maintenance of liberty and order

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Machiavelli Niccolò

The founder of modern political science, Machiavelli separated politics from ethics in The Prince by describing power as it actually operates rather than as moralists wish it would. The Discourses on Livy is a deeper, more republican work. His name became a byword for cynical power politics.

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