Imperium and Politics in Machiavelli and Spinoza
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The main objective of this paper is to present the basic content of the theories of politics proposed by Machiavelli and Spinoza. The primary task is to answer the questions: what is politics?, what are its main characteristics?, and what can we expect from it? The answers to these questions are given through analysis of the notion of ‘imperium’, present in the writings of both authors and, also, through that of the problems of the human condition and of human nature, which function as basic assumptions of Machiavelli’s and Spinoza’s conception of politics.
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