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(0)Thomas Hobbes
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Varia volume 0137347PB01A01
Publisher
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
Author
Series
Varia volume 37330PB0101
Publisher
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
12) The prince
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Not Supplied
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English
Description
"An infamous Renaissance classic, The Prince shocked Europe upon publication with its ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. Niccolo Machiavelli even came to be regarded by some as an agent of the Devel, his name taken for the intriguer "Machevill" of Jacobean tragedy. For his treatise on statecraft Machiavelli drew upon his own experience of office under the turbulent Florentine republic, rejecting...
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Collier Books
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
English
Description
Comparable to Plato's Republic in depth and insight, Leviathan includes two society-changing phenomena that Plato didn't dare to dream of -- the rise of great nation-states with their claims to absolute sovereignty, and modern science, with its unprecedented analytic power. To Hobbes, the leviathan -- a mythical sea creature described in the Old Testament -- represented his central thesis: that the state must be strong in order to control and protect...
