thoughts on machiavelli

The Strategy Makers Thoughts on War and Society from Machiavelli to Clausewitz【電子書籍】 Beatrice HeuserThoughts on Machiavelli【電子書籍】 Leo Strauss
 

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  • <p><strong>This book reintroduces readers to the lives and writings of the greatest military minds of the modern era, writers whose ideas and teachings continue to shape the conduct of war in the 21st century.</strong></p> <p>The word "strategy" only came into usage in West European languages after the work of a Byzantine emperor was translated around the time of the French Revolution. Nevertheless, there was writing on strategy ? relating political aims to the use of the military ? also in Western Europe, well before this. This book surveys and analyzes the existing literature. It presents commented excerpts of the work of the Elizabethan writer Matthew Sutcliffe (who wrote the first modern comprehensive strategic concept) and translations into English of excerpts from the writing of the Machiavelli-admirer the Seigneur de Fourquevaux (1548) and his French compatriot Bertrand de Loque, who also went by the name of Fran?ois de Saillans (1589); the Spanish diplomats and mil...
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  • <p><strong>The esteemed philosopher’s assessment of good, evil, and the value of Machiavelli.</strong></p> <p>Leo Strauss argued that the most visible fact about Machiavelli’s doctrine is also the most useful one: Machiavelli seems to be a teacher of wickedness. Strauss sought to incorporate this idea in his interpretation without permitting it to overwhelm or exhaust his exegesis of <em>The Prince</em> and <em>Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy</em>.</p> <p>“We are in sympathy,” he writes, “with the simple opinion about Machiavelli [namely, the wickedness of his teaching], not only because it is wholesome, but above all because a failure to take that opinion seriously prevents one from doing justice to what is truly admirable in Machiavelli: the intrepidity of his thought, the grandeur of his vision, and the graceful subtlety of his speech.” This critique of the founder of modern political philosophy by this prominent twentieth-century scholar is an ess...
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