The joke about political science is that it’s not about politics, and it’s not a science. This would have surprised Aristotle, the ancient inventor of the field, and Machiavelli, its modern reinventor ...
Leadership as Moral Responsibility The long history of political thought mdash;from Plato and Aristotle to Augustine, Machiavelli, Locke, and Lincoln mdash;offers more than abstract philosophy .
Say what you want about Niccolò Machiavelli. He’s the champion of chicanery, the sultan of schemes. But the 16th-century author of The Prince, a how-to guide for the power-hungry, also identified the ...
Niccolo Machiavelli wrote his famous treatise The Prince in 1513. At the time, Machiavelli’s treatise made a clear break from the Western tradition of political philosophy. Beginning with the great ...