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May 7, 2006

Does Machiavelli rehabilitate the ancient virtues of the classical Greeks and Romans against the Christian critique? Machiavelli is a restorer of something old and forgotten. Do his arguments in favor of republican regimes mean that his republicanism is of a civic humanist variety whose roots are to be found in classical antiquity?

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 4:58 PM | | Comments (2)
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I donĀ“t think Machiavelli was a renewer of th eGreek, he tried to find a new theory of the state, and he was more a historical mind then a philosophical mind in my view. thanks arash

I would say Machiavelli's political philosophy drew on ancient concepts of virtue to justify what the 'virtues' of medival princes had to be in 13th century Florence.