Thomas Hobbes and Niccolo Machiavelli: A Comparison.

By addressing the issue of tyranny in political life, this essay aims to subtract Machiavelli to the traditional reading that has flattened his thought as “Machiavellian” and, at the same time.

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It then traces its role from Greek and Roman political thought, through Machiavelli and the reason of state thinkers, and Hobbes and his emulators and critics, to the realists of the twentieth.

SPECIAL AIMS. With respect to the above-mentioned research aims, the principal objective is that of setting up new interpretative paths that cause efforts and trends towards a different and decided reassessment of political writings about the reason of state to mature just as we are already seeing in the European and international essays that have been written in a historiographic and critical.

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Essays in the State and the Constitution, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press. Google Scholar.

During the seventeenth century, attaining and preserving international predominance, in a political space characterised by the complexity and instability of the relationships of power, became a priority for the European states' structures of government.

In so doing the role of Russia in the unfolding of history from this era onward could be easily dismissed, opposed or ridiculed by proponents of Spengler, while in Russia his insi.

English Text and Essays in Interpretation, Hildesheim, Georg Olms Verlag, 2010. 11 Janini, P. A.,. Dal machiavellismo al libertinismo: studi in memoria di Anna Maria Battista, Firenze, 1989. 336 Mastrogiacomo. seventeenth-century reactions to the materialism and moral philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, Cambridge, Cambridge University.

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In fact, Hobbes’ conservative views infuriated John Locke to such a degree that he published his own Treatises of Government, advocating a public-run government based on the liberty of the citizen. Locke raged that Hobbes’ monarchy left ruler and subjects in the very state of turmoil it proclaimed to avoid (Chodorow, 1994).