Effective truth, Fortuna / Virtu and Homeland as Machiavelli's Tools to Create New Political Thought

Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

Authors

Department of philosophy , Faculty of Literature , Tabriz University , Tabriz, Iran

Abstract

Niccolò Machiavelli has definitely discovered the continent of political science before any other philosopher in the new era, and introduced a new logic for understanding political forces in the staging of power. In this research, the author seeks to bring Machiavelli's political thought and, consequently, the new political thought into account using the three key terms of effective truth, fortuna/virtu and homeland(patria), along with an interpretation of the complex relationship between the three and the dialectics of each of these concepts and Other concepts that shape the necessity within them. In this review, Machiavelli gradually melts not only the content of the classical political thought vocabulary in the magnetic field furnace of his new approach to politics, makes them a new meaning, but also Virtue-centered approach, Ethical ideals in Politics and fortune force put aside forever, and He introduces Effective truth is replaced by virtue, Virtu and politics Technique instead of fortuna and He introduces the salvation of the homeland as a criterion of virtue and morality and In this way farewell to political thought ahead of himself.

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