Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-6bf8c574d5-gr6zb Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-02-24T01:37:31.070Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

116. - Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469–1527)

from M

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

By
Piet Steenbakkers
Edited by
Karolina Hübner  and
Justin Steinberg
Karolina Hübner
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Justin Steinberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Get access

Summary

Only fairly recently scholars have begun to reassess Spinoza’s last work, the TP. It is in that unfinished treatise that Machiavelli’s legacy figures prominently. In the final section of Chapter 5 Spinoza praises him as “very sharp-witted [acutissimus],” “wise [sapiens],” and “most prudent [prudentissimus].” Given the exemplary part played by the wise man (vir sapiens) in Spinoza’s Ethics (E5pref, E5p42s), this is certainly significant.

Type
Chapter
Information
The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon , pp. 335 - 337
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Recommended Reading

Bock, G., Skinner, Q., and Viroli, M. (eds.). (1990). Machiavelli and Republicanism. Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Del Lucchese, F. (2004). Tumulti e indignatio: Conflitto, diritto e moltitudine in Machiavelli e Spinoza. Ghibli.Google Scholar
Haitsma Mulier, E. O. G. (1990). Dutch views on Machiavelli in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In Bock, G., Skinner, Q., and Viroli, M. (eds.), Machiavelli and Republicanism (pp. 247–63). Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Morfino, V. (2002). Il tempo e l’occasione: L’incontro Spinoza Machiavelli. LED.Google Scholar
Rosenthal, M. A. (2021). Spinoza’s “republican idea of freedom.” In Melamed, Y. (ed.), A Companion to Spinoza (pp. 402–09). Wiley-Blackwell.Google Scholar
Skinner, Q. (1981). Machiavelli. Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Steenbakkers, P. (2010). Spinoza leest Machiavelli. In Klugkist, A.C. and van Sluis, J. (eds.), Spinoza: Zijn boeken en zijn denken (pp. 35–54). Uitgeverij Spinozahuis.Google Scholar
Walther, M. (2018). Natur, Recht und Freiheit: Spinozas Theorie von Recht, Staat und Politik im Kontext der Frühen Neuzeit. Universitätsverlag Winter.Google Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×