Machiavelli''s Effectual Truth - Creating the Modern World

"This is the first book on the "effectual truth," a new kind of truth invented by Machiavelli that led to the invention of scientific method in cause and effect, passed along to philosophic successors, such as Montesquieu 230 years later. High-level thinking in words you can understand"--

List of contents

1. Machiavelli's succession problem; 2. Machiavelli's world; 3. Leo Strauss on The Prince; 4. The cuckold in Machiavelli's Mandragola; 5. Leonardo Bruni and Machiavelli on civic humanism; 6. Montesquieu and Machiavelli; 7. Tocqueville's Machiavellianism.

About the author

Harvey C. Mansfield has spent his life at Harvard, where he studies and teaches political philosophy. He is a translator of Machiavelli and Tocqueville, writing on Edmund Burke, the invention of indirect government, defensible and constitutional liberalism, the discovery of the theory of executive power, and the nature of manliness. He has received the National Humanities Medal (2004), delivered the annual Thomas Jefferson lecture (2007), and has been awarded the Bradley Prize.

Summary

This is the first book on the 'effectual truth,' a new kind of truth invented by Machiavelli that led to the invention of scientific method in cause and effect, passed along to philosophic successors, such as Montesquieu 230 years later. High-level thinking in words you can understand.

Foreword

Machiavelli, master conspirator of effectual truth, meets his equal in Montesquieu, who takes the task of maintaining the modern world.

Product details

• Authors: Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvey C. (Harvard University Mansfield
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2023
• EAN: 9781009320122
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0932012-2
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; European History, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Political science and theory, European history: Renaissance, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance