Book Review: Discourses on Livy, Part I

Rehabilitating Machiavelli Imagine you’re an intellectual who lives and works in close proximity to your society’s elite. Imagine that your studies of history and politics have inspired a deep love of social liberty and republicanism: …a form of government

Book Review: Discourses on Livy, Part I Conrad Bastable Jun 27, 2022 2 Share Rehabilitating Machiavelli Imagine you’re an intellectual who lives and works in close proximity to your society’s elite. Imagine that your studies of history and politics have inspired a deep love of social liberty and republicanism: … a form of government in which "supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives". In republics, the country is considered a "public matter", not the private concern or property of the rulers. And crucially, imagine that the society all around you exists within the

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