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 ...

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 ...