MACHIAVELLI PART - III

Dr, Kaushik Mitra, Head, Department of Political Science, Lucknow Christian Degree College, Lucknow.. U.P. India.

Machiavelli continued......

                                                                SEMESTER IV.

TOPIC: MACHIAVELLI

iNATIONAL STATE

Ø  He became the forerunner of the theory of national state when he laid down that a state should expand up to the limits of ethnic homogeneity.

Ø  He did not use the term of nationality in the modern sense but indicated that commontraditions, language and legal system were forces which made a state united against other states.

Ø  He advocated for an expansionist state like the Roman expansionism and not like a Greekcity state.

CONCLUSION

Ø  He was the 'Father of Modern Political Theory' who introduced new possibilities in political philosophy.

Ø  He was the first exponent of 'power politics'

Ø  He was a sincere patriot.

Ø  He believed in hedonistic morality

Ø  He was an extreme individualist

Ø  He was pragmatic devoted to classical antiquity.

SOME CRITICAL DEFINATIONS

Ø  Dr. Murray: ' Machiavelli was clear -sighted, not far-sighted.'

Ø  C J Fox: 'What is morally wrong can never be politically right.'