Machiavelli and a Sixteenth Century Republican Theory of Liberty
In the following thesis, I argue that to contextualize Machiavelli’s republican thought in his Italian humanist heritage permits us to understand how Machiavelli reaches back not only to an Italian pre-humanist inheritance of liberty as freedom from servitude, but to a Stoic conception of agency whi...
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| Language: | en |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23304 |