Machiavelli : a very short introduction

马基雅维利：简介

基本信息

Author：Quentin

Format：Paperback | 144 pages

Dimensions：113 x 173 x 8mm | 116g

Publication date：01 Oct 2019

Publisher：Oxford University Press

Language：English

ISBN10：0198837577

ISBN13：9780198837572

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书籍简介

马基雅维利(Niccolo Machiavelli)曾教导说，政治领袖必须做好作恶的准备，好让作恶带来好处，他的名字从此成了口是心非和不道德的代名词。他那邪恶的名声配得上吗?在回答这个问题时，昆丁·斯金纳追溯了马基雅维利成年后的生活历程，从他担任佛罗伦萨共和国的第二次总理开始，期间他会见了国王、教皇和神圣罗马帝国的皇帝，直到1512年共和国垮台。他死于1527年，在共和国垮台之后，马基雅维利完成了他的主要政治作品:《君主论》、《话语论》和《佛罗伦萨历史》。

在他非常简短的导言的第二版中，斯金纳包含了关于君主的新材料，展示了马基雅维利是如何通过与古罗马道德家和历史学家，特别是西塞罗和李维的持续对话，发展他的新古典主义政治理论的。马基雅维利认为，政治领袖的目标应该是尽可能地表现出美德，但当这种行为被必要要求时，则要准备好“做坏”。通过探索在古典和文艺复兴时期的人文主义文本中都可以找到的关键概念“virtu（拉丁语中‘美德’的意思）”，斯金纳给马基雅维利的哲学带来了新的启示，即他愿意做任何必要的事——无论是道德上的还是其他的——来维持权力地位。

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Niccolo Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever since for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister reputation deserved? In answering this question Quentin Skinner traces the course of Machiavelli's adult life, from his time as Second Chancellor of the Florentine republic, during which he met with kings, the pope, and the Holy Roman Emperor; to the fall of the republic in 1512; to his death in 1527. It was after the fall of the Republic that Machiavelli composed his main political works: The Prince, the Discourses, and The History of Florence. 

In this second edition of his Very Short Introduction Skinner includes new material on The Prince, showing how Machiavelli developed his neo-classical political theory, through engaging in continual dialogue with the ancient Roman moralists and historians, especially Cicero and Livy. The aim of political leaders, Machiavelli argues, should be to act virtuously so far as possible, but to stand ready 'to be not good' when this course of action is dictated by necessity. Exploring the pivotal concept of princely virtu to be found in classical and Renaissance humanist texts, Skinner brings new light to Machiavelli's philosophy of a willingness to do whatever may be necessary - whether moral or otherwise -to maintain a position of power. 

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作者简介

昆汀·斯金纳出生于1940年，在剑桥大学冈维尔和凯斯学院接受教育，他现在是那里的荣誉研究员。1974年至1979年期间，他在普林斯顿大学高级研究所担任研究员，之后回到剑桥大学担任政治学教授。1996年，他被任命为剑桥大学历史学教授，直到2008年他进入伦敦玛丽女王大学。他是英国科学院院士和许多其他国家科学院的外籍成员，包括欧洲学术界。他著有多部著作，包括《政治思想基础》(剑桥，1978)和《从人文主义到霍布斯：修辞与政治研究》(剑桥，2018)，他的学术成就为他赢得了许多奖项，如以赛亚·柏林奖、沃尔夫森历史奖和两项美国政治科学协会的奖项。

Quentin Skinner was born in 1940 and educated at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, where he is now an Honorary Fellow. Between 1974 and 1979 he was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, before returning to Cambridge as Professor of Political Science. He was appointed Regius Professor of History at Cambridge in 1996, a post he held until he moved to Queen Mary University of London in 2008. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a foreign member of many other national academies, including the Academia Europea. He is the author of a number of books, including The Foundation of Political Thought (Cambridge, 1978), and From Humanism to Hobbes: studies in rhetoric and politics (Cambridge, 2018), and his scholarship has won him many awards, such as the Isaiah Berlin Prize, The Wolfson History Prize, and two awards from the American Political Science Association.

目录

Introduction

1. The Diplomat

2. The Adviser to Princes

3. The Theorist of Liberty

4. The Historian of Florence

Further reading

Index