Croce and Machiavelli. Forms and Ways of a Continuity

Authors

  • Emilia Scarcella Università degli Studi di Messina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/1593-7178/2151

Keywords:

Croce, Machiavelli, De Sanctis, Politics

Abstract

This essay focuses on the comparison between Benedetto Croce and Niccolò Machiavelli, starting from Francesco De Sanctis' reading of Machiavelli during the 19th century. Croce studied for a long time Machiavelli's thinking and considered him the father of the modern political philosophy  who realized politics as  an independent category of mind and the base of the historical process. Through this new kind of approach to politics, Machiavelli' s tradition of thinking led to De Sanctis and Croce producing a new way to conceive relationship between politics and ethics that was a node of Croce's philosophical system.

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Published

2013-12-05

How to Cite

Scarcella, E. (2013). Croce and Machiavelli. Forms and Ways of a Continuity. Bollettino Filosofico, 28, 321–336. https://doi.org/10.6093/1593-7178/2151

Issue

Vol. 28 (2013): Croce in Between Past and Future

Section

Editorial

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