Niccolo Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil 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 focuses on three major works, "The Prince", "the Discourses", and "The History of Florence", and distils from them an introd...
Niccolo Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil 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 focuses on three major works, "The Prince", "the Discourses", and "The History of Florence", and distils from them an introduction to Machiavelli's doctrines of exemplary clarity.
And he is even more fulsomely commended for having grasped the basic lesson that any new prince needs to learn if he wishes to maintain his state: he must stop relying on Fortune and foreign arms, raise soldiers of his own, and make himself 'complete master of his own forces'.
These writers had laid it down that, if a ruler owes his positions to the intervention of Fortune, the first lesson he must learn is to fear the goddess, even when she comes bearing gifts. Livy had furnished a particularly influential statement of this claim in book XXX of his History, in the course of describingthe dramatic moment when hannibal finally capitulates to the young Scipio. Hannibal begins his speech of surrender by remarking admiringly that his conqueror has so far been 'a man whom Fortune has never de... (查看原文)
But some of them, especially Leo Strauss and his disciples, have unrepentantly continued to uphold the traditional view that (as Strauss expresses it) Machiavelli can only be characterized as 'a teach...But some of them, especially Leo Strauss and his disciples, have unrepentantly continued to uphold the traditional view that (as Strauss expresses it) Machiavelli can only be characterized as 'a teacher of evil'. 哈哈哈，不喷施派，誓不为剑桥学派。光就马基雅维利研究而论吧，施派更重历时而剑派更重共时。当然，施派的历时是非常历史哲学的，而剑派的共时则特别语境，所以前者是一首史诗，我称之为倒着的《神曲》，后者是一塑雕像，无疑是莱辛的拉奥孔。论老马著书中最着力的还是《君主论》和《论李维》。(展开)
As easy and well-arranged as a typical introduction aould be, which at the same time means that not many comments were made by Skinner himself. Pivotal topics: Fortune, virtú, deceiving, mercenary, et...As easy and well-arranged as a typical introduction aould be, which at the same time means that not many comments were made by Skinner himself. Pivotal topics: Fortune, virtú, deceiving, mercenary, etc. Yet it is clear that what was written in The Prince was mainly STATECRAFT, among which inevitably nothing metaphysical was particularly involved. (展开)
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昆廷·斯金纳 作者
hanmo
译林出版社2014版
Dionysus
译林出版社2014版
0 有用 hztz 2014-02-12 01:18:41
不是很喜欢这个学派处理思想家的方法。
3 有用 de陆钓雪 2017-04-04 04:03:41
But some of them, especially Leo Strauss and his disciples, have unrepentantly continued to uphold the traditional view that (as Strauss expresses it) Machiavelli can only be characterized as 'a teach... But some of them, especially Leo Strauss and his disciples, have unrepentantly continued to uphold the traditional view that (as Strauss expresses it) Machiavelli can only be characterized as 'a teacher of evil'. 哈哈哈，不喷施派，誓不为剑桥学派。光就马基雅维利研究而论吧，施派更重历时而剑派更重共时。当然，施派的历时是非常历史哲学的，而剑派的共时则特别语境，所以前者是一首史诗，我称之为倒着的《神曲》，后者是一塑雕像，无疑是莱辛的拉奥孔。论老马著书中最着力的还是《君主论》和《论李维》。 (展开)
0 有用 Isanti则若 2014-01-31 22:12:48
挺好的。英文很好读，以至于让我以为自己的英文有长进。简洁清晰有力，自己看原著的话，没法归纳这么好。但也毕竟还是一本introduction，还是看原著直观喵，也不差多少时间。看完之后才发现是名作者写的@@虽然写得很好但是没有觉得很有创见啊……
1 有用 野次馬 2011-02-28 00:30:29
As easy and well-arranged as a typical introduction aould be, which at the same time means that not many comments were made by Skinner himself. Pivotal topics: Fortune, virtú, deceiving, mercenary, et... As easy and well-arranged as a typical introduction aould be, which at the same time means that not many comments were made by Skinner himself. Pivotal topics: Fortune, virtú, deceiving, mercenary, etc. Yet it is clear that what was written in The Prince was mainly STATECRAFT, among which inevitably nothing metaphysical was particularly involved. (展开)
0 有用 The Arch 2011-06-29 14:52:07
还是小说系列的