Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy
- ISBN-10
- 0674242521
- ISBN-13
- 9780674242524
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 576
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-12-17
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- James Hankins
Description
James Hankins challenges the view that the Renaissance was the seedbed of modern republicanism, with Machiavelli as exemplary thinker. What most concerned Renaissance political theorists, Hankins contends, was not reforming laws but shaping citizens. To secure the social good, they fostered virtue through a new program of education: the humanities.
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