Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy

Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy
ISBN-10
0674278739
ISBN-13
9780674278738
Category
History
Pages
768
Language
English
Published
2022-11
Publisher
Belknap 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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