Niccolo Machiavelli: moralist or organic intellectual?
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https://doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2007v12n2p175Keywords:
Politics, Ethics, Organic IntellectualAbstract
This article seeks to understand the core of Machiavelli’s political thought: political action. He inaugurates in his era a revolutionary form of thinking about politics, attacking the nucleus of Christian morality, and returning to the ethics of ancient peoples. Accepting ancient values means promoting political action guided by public and collective interests. His work defends a brand of political action capable of constructing a new Italy, unified and sovereign. Arguing against the hegemony of the church, he defended the construction of a new historical bloc, which classified him as an organic intellectual of his time.Downloads
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