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Fortune And The Republic Machiavelli?s Freedom Republic

Posted on:2017-08-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:B Q DengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2336330503488471Subject:Foreign philosophy
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The republican's great is that "she" makes people in the true sense has the power to change. The connotation of the republic is in order to achieve the joint, this makes democracy and freedom is inevitable. Democracy makes the "humanum commune" whole society to build by the equal political rights of freedom, the moral connotation of but at the same time people at risk of destroyed. Fully democratic principles be political freedom, and based on absolute individual democracy doctrine, and makes the individual face political constraints of passion. Abstract of weakening the political meaning of the rights of the individual desire, so it can't overcome the contradictory between the individual power struggles. Republic of adult inevitable goal of ideal democracy and freedom, but also hidden crisis. Democrats and republicans have to face a lack of certainty in the human nature. Democracies tend to be most people will choose, but because most people the incompetence and ignorance of the republic itself is difficult to realize the rule of virtue. Democratic republic inside due to the hostility between individuals or the same similar rights, the republicans lost own political passions, fear and the weak eventually lead to the bankruptcy of democracy. At the heart of the republic is how to realize the combination of people, to ensure that the balance of political freedom and rights. Machiavelli with inevitability of "evil" and "natural change" for the republican to construct an equal political identity. His republic founded upon freedom rather than for the purpose of the natural, this is the necessary end of "nature" is also a country and society as the result of individual power and select the object. Essential request of the republic is not good, but an inevitable product of freedom struggle. The process of the importance of people is equal, Machiavelli's rule of man is the inevitable mileage political freedom. In the course of the practice of democracy and equality makes human face weakening of passion, this will eventually lead to the loss of their equality. Machiavelli thinks that in order to avoid the political principles of abstraction to destruction of human nature, only the political back to the principle of equality between individuals. The equality of identity must, therefore, as the inevitable choice of democracy. Machiavelli with the huge problem "modernity" open, modern political philosophy itself to be found to replace as a moral necessity of nature.
Keywords/Search Tags:Machiavelli, <, Discourses on Livy>, , Republic, Virus Freedom, Equality
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