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2 - Machiavelli’s World

from Part I - Machiavelli’s Enterprise and “the World”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2023

Harvey C. Mansfield
Harvey C. Mansfield
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Harvard University, Massachusetts
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Machiavelli creates the modern world of necessities that can be understood and controlled. He invented a world in the modern sense of a whole by itself, not explained by ideas or essences, and not followed by the next world.

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worldMachiavellianismprofessionpresumptionThe Princeconspiracyphilosopherancients
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Machiavelli's Effectual Truth
Creating the Modern World
 , pp. 33 - 70
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Machiavelli’s World
  • Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvard University, Massachusetts
  • Book: Machiavelli's Effectual Truth
  • Online publication: 07 September 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009320139.004
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  • Machiavelli’s World
  • Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvard University, Massachusetts
  • Book: Machiavelli's Effectual Truth
  • Online publication: 07 September 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009320139.004
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  • Machiavelli’s World
  • Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvard University, Massachusetts
  • Book: Machiavelli's Effectual Truth
  • Online publication: 07 September 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009320139.004
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