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Discuss the importance of Machiavelli in the history of political thought. Is it correct to say that Machiavelli’s theory is ‘narrowly local and narrowly dated’?

  • UPSC 2007
  • Western Political Thought

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Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) marks the break between medieval and modern political thought. The Prince (written 1513, published 1532) and the Discourses on Livy (published 1531) moved the question from how a ruler should live to how power actually works. George H. Sabine (A History of Political Theory, 1937) nevertheless called his philosophy narrowly local and…

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