- Title Pages
- A note on the text and acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Rousseau
- 1 The Morally Neutral Political Scientist
- 2 Virtue and the Double Standard
- 3 Republics and Freedom
- 4 Machiavelli: an Egalitarian?
- 5 The Leader, the Legislator, the Prince, and the Patriot
- 6 A General Assessment of Hobbes’s Political Philosophy
- 7 Obligation, Law, and Covenant I
- 8 Obligation, Law, and Covenant II
- 9 Sovereign Authority and the Right of Resistance I
- 10 Sovereign Authority and the Right of Resistance II
- 11 Rousseau’s Place in the History of Political Thought
- 12 Rousseau’s Conception of Freedom
- 13 Inequality: Its Origins and Effects
- 14 Man’s Natural Goodness and his Corruption by Society
- 15 Reason, Freedom, and Justice
- 16 The Sovereign People, the Law, and the Citizen
- 17 The Community and the Citizen
- Text Citations Index
- Subject Index
Machiavelli: an Egalitarian?
Machiavelli: an Egalitarian?
- Chapter:
- (p.54) 4 Machiavelli: an Egalitarian?
- Source:
- Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Rousseau
- Author(s):
Mark Philp
Z. A. Pelczynski
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Plamenatz sees Machiavelli as more concerned with inequality and its ill-effects than with equality, save on the issue of equal subordination to the law; he is hostile also to those who claim inequality based on anything other than virtue. He generally sides with the poor, except when they become a mob, and he admires self-made men of great ability.
Keywords: rich, poor, equality, the people, nobility, princes, advisors
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- Title Pages
- A note on the text and acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Rousseau
- 1 The Morally Neutral Political Scientist
- 2 Virtue and the Double Standard
- 3 Republics and Freedom
- 4 Machiavelli: an Egalitarian?
- 5 The Leader, the Legislator, the Prince, and the Patriot
- 6 A General Assessment of Hobbes’s Political Philosophy
- 7 Obligation, Law, and Covenant I
- 8 Obligation, Law, and Covenant II
- 9 Sovereign Authority and the Right of Resistance I
- 10 Sovereign Authority and the Right of Resistance II
- 11 Rousseau’s Place in the History of Political Thought
- 12 Rousseau’s Conception of Freedom
- 13 Inequality: Its Origins and Effects
- 14 Man’s Natural Goodness and his Corruption by Society
- 15 Reason, Freedom, and Justice
- 16 The Sovereign People, the Law, and the Citizen
- 17 The Community and the Citizen
- Text Citations Index
- Subject Index
