POL200Y5 Lecture Notes - Republicanism
15 Apr 2013
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No radical break between what he has said in prince vs discourse. See it as stages; themes given in prince are reinforced in discourses. Machiavelli is not talking to the prince any more: prince is simplified, discourse is explained. Machiavelli has a cyclical view of history. Italians being at the bottom of the cycle: dominated, civil war, hostile to each other, don"t like politics. Italy was at the lowest state of human nature. Religion is the simplification of the vision. Leader army senate consuls tribunes. In division of power machiavelli saw the rise of roman liberty. Roughly 500-700 years after romulus tipping point from a roman republic to roman empire: romans became captive of their success, gladiator: there is no one left to fight . Rome was powerful because of it"s legal vision. Tipping point: civilization: let somebody else do it this mentality continued and rome continued to degenerate.
