Best known for his claim that the natural human condition is one of war and all against all, 17th-century English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes ... in Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince ...

Of all the writers in the “realist” canon—from Thucydides and Hobbes to Morgenthau and Mearsheimer—it is Niccolo Machiavelli who retains the greatest capacity to shock. In 1513 ...

prepared by Hobbes and Locke and taken up by the likes of David Hume, Montesquieu, and Adam Smith. At the end of the fifteenth chapter of his Prince, Machiavelli suggests that the virtues and vices ...

Still, Niccolò Machiavelli achieved that feat as the progenitor ... into the undisclosed financial dealings of Justice Clarence Thomas, which included lavish gifts, luxury vacations, and a ...

Of all the writers in the “realist” canon—from Thucydides and Hobbes to Morgenthau and Mearsheimer—it is Niccolo Machiavelli who retains the greatest capacity to shock. In 1513 ...

“Niccoló Machiavelli: ‘The Prince’ and Its Era (1513-2013)” exhibition commemorates the 500th anniversary of the Italian philosopher, politician and writer’s signature treatis ...

How to Win Friends and Influence People is probably a more helpful guide to political life than the lawless visions of Machiavelli and Hobbes. And so it was that American political science became ...

No, these are not the sayings of Buddha. They are aphorisms from diplomat and writer Niccolò Machiavelli’s 1532 classic of realpolitik and power-grabbing, “The Prince.” At a time when the ...

“Machiavellian” is another shorthand that inverts its namesake, even if the Renaissance statesman and writer Niccolò Machiavelli still gets cast in the popular imagination as a cynical ...