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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461442103321

Autore

Belliotti Raymond A. <1948->

Titolo

Machiavelli's secret : the soul of the statesman / / Raymond Angelo Belliotti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4384-5722-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Disciplina

172

Soggetti

Statesmen - Psychology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Value of Patriotism; The Final Chapter; The Need to Develop Civic Virtù; The Role of Virtù; The Nature of the World; The Requirements of Personal Identity; The Importance of Personal Security; The Quest for Deserved Glory; The Significance of the Value of Patriotism; Churchill and Coventry; Iran-Contra; Chapter 2 Religion and Morality; The Values and Uses of Religion; Refashioning God and Religion in Service of Patriotism; Patriotism, Religion, and the Condition of a Person's Soul; Machiavelli's Morality

The Popular View of Machiavelli on MoralityJustifications and Excuses; Machiavelli's Corollary Principle of Morality; Chapter 3 The Problem of Dirty Hands; How Political Hands Get Dirty; Moral Theory and the Problem of Dirty Hands; Machiavelli and Dirty Hands; Case Study in Dirty Hands: President Truman; Partial Excuses; Is Machiavelli's Doctrine Abhorrent?; Evaluating Military and Political Leaders; Gaius Julius Caesar (100 BCE-44 BCE); Oliverotto Euffreducci (Oliverotto da Fermo), CA. 1475-1502; Agathocles of Syracuse, 361 BCE-289 BCE; Girolamo Savonarola, 1452-1498

Piero Soderini, 1450-1513Giovampagolo Baglioni, 1470-1520; Cesare Borgia ("Duke Valentino"), 1475-1507; Romulus, CA. 770 BCE-CA. 716 BCE; Lucius Junius Brutus, CA. 545 BCE-CA. 509 BCE; Numa Pompilius, CA. 750 BCE-CA. 673 BCE; Hiero II, 308 BCE-216 BCE; Hannibal, CA.



247 BCE-183 BCE; Chapter 4 The Soul of the Statesman; Piecing the Clues Together; The Inner Life of a Machiavellian Statesman; Why Should a Statesman Worry about Losing His Soul?; The Puzzle Completed; Guicciardini's Critique; Machiavelli's Legacy; Appendix A: Texts and Their Abbreviations; References

Abbreviations for Book TitlesCitations to the Work of Francesco Guicciardini; Citations to the Work of Plato; Citations to the Work of Aristotle; Appendix B: Machiavelli's Life and Times; Appendix C: Case Studies-Heroes and Villains; Moses, CA. 1393 BCE-CA. 1273 BCE; Numa Pompilius, CA. 750 BCE-CA. 673 BCE; Gaius Julius Caesar, 100 BCE-44 BCE; Oliverotto Euffreducci (Oliverotto da Fermo), CA. 1475-1502; Agathocles of Syracuse, 361 BCE-289 BCE; Girolamo Savonarola, 1452-1498; Piero Soderini, 1450-1513; Giovampagolo Baglioni, 1470-1520; Cesare Borgia ("Duke Valentino"), 1475-1507

Romulus, CA. 770 bce-CA. 716 BCELucius Junius Brutus, CA. 545 BCE-CA. 509 BCE; Hiero II of Syracuse, 308 BCE-216 BCE; Hannibal, CA. 247 BCE-183 BCE; Notes; Bibliography; Books; Articles; About the Author; Index