Machiavelli – a művész
Machiavelli – The Artist

Summary/Abstract: My paper consists of three parts. In the first part, I seek to sum up the essence of Aristotle’s normative politics, and in some points I compare Machiavelli’s and Aristotle’s relationship to politics in general. In the second part, I sum up the Aristotelian teaching concerning the difference between doing and making, to have a clear understanding of what is the tradition inherited by Renaissance humanists, through Aquinas. In the third part, I show how Machiavelli bypasses that tradition, how he shifts the emphasis from “action” to “creation”, and thus he sets the framework for the modern interpretation of politics, as something that is not part of normative politics anymore, but becomes the “art of government”.

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