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Comment “Machiavelli’s political philosophy was narrowly local and narrowly dated.” (Sabine)

  • UPSC 2003
  • Western Political Thought

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George H. Sabine made this judgement in A History of Political Theory (1937) while explaining Niccolò Machiavelli's attitude to religion. Had Machiavelli written outside Italy, or after the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, he could not have treated religion as he did. Sabine reads the whole theory as a generalisation from one peninsula at one desperate moment.…

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