CONCEPTION OF PEOPLE IN THE PRINCE OF MACHIAVELLI

Authors

  • José Luiz Ames Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v10i1.41855

Keywords:

Machiavelli. People. The prince. Political conflict.

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to examine the conception of people present in the work The Prince of Machiavelli. We will show that people appear in this work with a double meaning, varying according to the context of their use. On the one hand, in the context of the founding of the great lawmakers and the foundation by a new prince he appears with the meaning of all the subjects. On the other hand, in the context of the prince's relations with his people under an already established political order, people specifically indicate the mood that in every city is opposed to the mood of the great. While in the context of the foundation people are a passive body submitted to the prince, in the context of the government of an already established political order people appear as a politically active and determining force in relation to the prince. The two meanings are in a relationship of tension: in the course of the foundation the prince tends to reduce the people to their condition of totality of subjects, but in the concrete political action the prince needs tenant animato l'universale as humor of the part that, united to the prince, is opposed to the desire to command the great.

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Author Biography

José Luiz Ames, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná

Departamento de Filosofia

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia

Linha de Ética e Filosofia Política

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Published

2019-07-16

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2019)

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