The place of the tyrant in Machiavelli's political thought and the literary genre of The prince

Giovanni Giorgini, Columbia University. Italian Academy
2017
"My project at the Italian Academy concerns how to create good citizens in a multicultural society through a reform of education. In my previous paper I tried to show how an Aristotelian approach seems to be the most promising model of education. The typical objection to such an approach is that it "idealizes" too much the real situation of human beings and their 'nature,' which has a lot of negative features neglected by the neoAristotelians. In this paper I aim to show how Machiavelli's
more » ... cal writings aim at permanently educate the real statesman, teaching him the primary duty of responsibility and the virtue of prudence. Machiavelli, the champion of political realism, becomes thus an ally of Aristotle in educating good citizens."
doi:10.7916/d8z3250k fatcat:rbdeizmqafct5fddhwavdaq2se