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BL
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1044910
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b799280
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Kocis, Robert.
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| Title & Author
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Machiavelli redeemed : : retrieving his humanist perspectives on equality, power, and glory /\ Robert A. Kocis.
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| Publication Statement
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Bethlehem, Pa. :: Lehigh University Press,, ©1998.
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1 online resource (264 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0585188947
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: 9780585188942
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0934223424
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-258) and index.
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| Contents
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pt. I.A humanist worldview. Humanism and empiricism: a world open to human effort -- pt. II. Human nature and potentials. Corruption and nobility: maximizing human potentials -- pt. III. Machiavellian morals. Creating our moral obligations. The end justifies the means -- In corruption. Obeying laws under a good constitution -- pt. IV. Economics, society, and politics. Why freedom may require princes. Ambition, corruption, and nationalism. Economics, equality, and justice. Machiavelli's place in the history of western political thought. Chronology of events shaping Machiavelli's thought.
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The true Machiavelli is not to be found in extremist interpretations. The fault for these misperceptions is partly his own: he spoke in provocative paradoxes to challenge sacred truths, and this makes it easy for observers to ignore the obvious. In this portrait, the obvious dominates our vision, and he emerges as a Renaissance humanist. Like all of us, Machiavelli was a flawed being with strains of greatness mixed with baser ingredients. But his political insights and recognition of the emergence of a new reality qualify him as a political genius. Neither devil nor saint, Machiavelli has languished too long in the Purgatory of the human imagination and deserves redemption.
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Machiavelli, Niccolò,1469-1527-- Contributions in political science.
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Machiavelli, Niccolò,1469-1527
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Machiavelli, Niccolo.,1469-1527.
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Humanists-- Italy.
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Humanists.
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Intellectual life.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Essays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Reference.
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Political science.
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Italy, Intellectual life, 1268-1559.
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Italy.
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| Dewey Classification
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320.1/092
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| LC Classification
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JC143.M4K596 1998eb
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D095. 463clc
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D754. 609clc
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