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A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General JurisprudenceThe (Non)-Legal Thought of Niccolò Machiavelli

A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence: The (Non)-Legal Thought of Niccolò... [Machiavelli is the most ardent Romanist (or Rome-lover) among all modern political philosophers: Indeed his greatest single work is a set of Discourses on Livy’s history of Rome (cf. Meinecke 1884, chaps. 4 and 5). But while most of the great Rome-lovers—most notably Dante, Leibniz and Rousseau—give enormous weight to Roman law as the towering and permanent Roman achievement (outlasting the fall of Rome herself; cf. Barker 1923) Machiavelli by contrast gives absolute priority to the personal creative genius of Romulus, of Numa, of the Antonine “good” emperors (Machiavelli 1950a, Book 1, chap. 10).] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General JurisprudenceThe (Non)-Legal Thought of Niccolò Machiavelli

Editors: Pattaro, Enrico; Canale, Damiano; Grossi, Paolo; Hofmann, Hasso; Riley, Patrick
Riley, Patrick
A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence — Jan 1, 2009
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Netherlands 2009
ISBN
978-90-481-2963-8
Pages
355 –363
DOI
10.1007/978-90-481-2964-5_9
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Abstract

[Machiavelli is the most ardent Romanist (or Rome-lover) among all modern political philosophers: Indeed his greatest single work is a set of Discourses on Livy’s history of Rome (cf. Meinecke 1884, chaps. 4 and 5). But while most of the great Rome-lovers—most notably Dante, Leibniz and Rousseau—give enormous weight to Roman law as the towering and permanent Roman achievement (outlasting the fall of Rome herself; cf. Barker 1923) Machiavelli by contrast gives absolute priority to the personal creative genius of Romulus, of Numa, of the Antonine “good” emperors (Machiavelli 1950a, Book 1, chap. 10).]

Published: Jan 1, 2009

Keywords: Civic Virtue; Absolute Priority; Personal Creativity; Civic Order; Ancient Temple

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