The Radical Machiavelli

Morfino, Vittorio; Lucchese, Filippo Del; Frosini, Fabio

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“…Hankins 2019). Similarly, Del Lucchese (2011Lucchese ( , 2015 claims Machiavelli was the first to "dispose of the concept of the 'common good'" (Pedullà 2018, 5), viewing politics merely as a battleground of clashing, individual ambitions (2015, 26-30;cf. Ahrensdorf 2016).…”

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A New Perspective on Machiavellian Leadership

Davis

2023

Political Research Quarterly

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Recently, much debate has occurred regarding Machiavelli’s standards for good leadership. Drawing on his unusually approving—but still understudied—treatment of Marcus Furius Camillus, a Roman general and ruler, this paper presents a new perspective on Machiavelli’s leadership teachings. It argues that the Machiavellian leader possesses a rare self-honesty that frees him from heroic visions of himself and, thus, from dangerous vanity and from vengefulness toward opponents. Although this leader is no altruist, then, he often benefits his people more effectively than other rulers can, for he views the needs of his state with clearer eyes. This complex outlook differs from the ones that most scholars have attributed to the Machiavellian leader. It also provides us with a nuanced framework for considering what qualities to look for in potential leaders today.

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A New Perspective on Machiavellian Leadership

Davis

2023

Political Research Quarterly

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“…In the early modern period, theorists of the multitude have focussed extensively on the work of Baruch Spinoza who affords a central role to the multitude in the idea of democracy that he defends in his political treatise and in other works (Balibar, 2011;Negri, 2000). Moreover, an increasing number of theorists from Marxist and Althusserian backgrounds have devoted fundamental work to treating Machiavelli as a thinker of the multitude (Del Lucchese, 2009;Del Lucchese et al, 2015), a topic that is now the object of heated debate both in political theory and in the history of political thought. 1 While some theorists of the multitude have made scattered references to late medieval theories of the multitude (Vatter, 2012), most interpreters do not extensively engage with such references.…”

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Theorizing the multitude before Machiavelli. Marsilius of Padua between Aristotle and Ibn Rushd

Mulieri

2022

European Journal of Political Theory

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Even if political theorists rarely read him, Italian political thinker, Marsilius of Padua, presents one of the most radical theories of the multitude prior to Machiavelli and Spinoza. This article reconstructs Marsilius of Padua's political theory of the multitude in his Defender of Peace and pays special attention to two main sources from which Marsilius frames his theory: Aristotle and Ibn Rushd. Compared to Aristotle, Marsilius advances a more epistemic view of the multitude as a lawmaker. Marsilius’ ideas on the multitude also depend on Ibn Rushd's theory of collective knowledge and, to a certain extent, on his position on natural law.

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Niccolò Machiavelli

Di Pierro

2023

Political Philosophy and Public Purpose

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The Radical Machiavelli

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A New Perspective on Machiavellian Leadership

A New Perspective on Machiavellian Leadership

Theorizing the multitude before Machiavelli. Marsilius of Padua between Aristotle and Ibn Rushd

Niccolò Machiavelli

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