author: joseph canning

Justifications of Authority and Power: Justifications of Authority and Power, c. 1400–c. 1520

... Machiavelli was the literary genius with which he expressed those ideas ... human affairs: 'I am disposed to hold that fortune is the arbiter of half ... view of human nature was pessimistic, seeing men (to follow his gendered language) ...

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