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    The lecture outline discusses key concepts from Machiavelli's The Prince and Discourses including: 1) how political leaders should be judged based on their results rather than appearance of virtue; 2) how to deal with the role of fortune in politics; and 3) how Machiavelli viewed the expansionist Roman Republic as the ideal model of a mixed government that could achieve glory through statecraft.

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    The lecture outline discusses key concepts from Machiavelli's The Prince and Discourses including: 1) how political leaders should be judged based on their results rather than appearance of virtue; 2) how to deal with the role of fortune in politics; and 3) how Machiavelli viewed the expansionist Roman Republic as the ideal model of a mixed government that could achieve glory through statecraft.

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    17.03.

    Introduction to Political Thought


    Lecture Outline: Machiavelli, The Prince, chs. 15-26; Discourses, Bk 1, Intro & chs. 1-5

    I. Moral standards in politics

    A. Having conventional virtues v. reputation/appearance of having them


    Satiric commentaries on Cicero’s De Officiis
    1. Generosity and miserliness
    2. Mercy and cruelty
    3. Integrity/keeping promises
    B. Political actions should be judged by their effects, not by their intrinsic rightness
    1. Negative constraints on actions
    2. Positive goals guiding actions

    II. Fortune’s role in human life

    A. What is Fortune?
    B. How to deal with her

    III. Discourses on Livy: expansionist Roman republic as the model

    A. Historical cycle of different forms of government


    B. Mixed government as best government
    1. Sparta (mixed government) v. Athens (democratic government)
    2. Rome (mixed government)
    a. Conflict between the nobility and the people
    3. Sparta v. Rome

    IV. Highest end of any city is glory or greatness (grandezza)

    A. What is glory?
    B. How to achieve it
    1. Statecraft
    2. Republics superior to principalities

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