HUMAN-111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cesare Borgia, Chaos Theory, Political Philosophy
24 Sep 2020
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Cesare defeated and flees to spain: borgia had great influence on machiavelli. Machiavelli witnesses chaos in italy, lots of foreign invasions, fighting between italian states: machiavelli decides ruthless tactics are the most successful in such a chaotic system, Pope julius ii reinstates medici family as greatest power in florentine republic. Rome: didn"t know greek unlike bruni, so his main inspirations are latin writes, especially livy. Machiavelli often considered father of political science: most secular writer of the renaissance, developed moral political philosophy. Wrote often on how princes should behave. Machiavelli deliberately never argues virtues are bad in politics, but always, but continually outlines how some virtues will get princes into trouble. Machiavelli"s concept of the human being is not typically humanist, its more a product of. Greek or latin, which were much more complex languages to master. Greek, revived greek medicine: had friends in high places. Rise of the idea of sovereignty, sovereignty extends over all parts of life.
