A Book that changed the concept of politics: on Machiavelli’s Prince 500th anniversary
Keywords:
politics, cunning mind, fortuna-virtù, MachiavellianismAbstract
The paper presents and analyzes The Prince of Niccolò Machiavelli at the 500th anniversary of its creation. After the necessary presentation of the context of this significant piece on political relations in the 16th century Italy and theoretical insights into the phenomenon of politics, the author shows that the greatest merit of the piece is formulation of the state as a specific form of political community arising in the 16th century. In addition to the basic considerations of state, the paper analyzes Machiavelli’s typology of forms of government, the fortuna-virtù dialectical relationship as well as the concept of bourgeois monarchy as Machiavelli’s ideal-type of the state.
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