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Machiavelli operated, as I have shown, in a world as saturated with Averroism as the United States and western Europe were saturated with Marxism in the 1960s and 1970s. He could not have escaped being familiar with the outlines of the doctrine. It was the talk of the town. In this paper, I argue that the most important contribution of Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes to Machiavelli's thinking was their discovery and analysis of a new form of governance, peculiar to the modern world, which he called "the ecclesiastical polity." It is the purpose of the paper to demonstrate that his attempt to develop a strategy to cope with this phenomenon that was the central feature of his political thought. |
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| Rahe, Paul. "Machiavelli's Debt to Averroism" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-08 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p210856_index.html> |
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| Rahe, P. A. , 2007-08-30 "Machiavelli's Debt to Averroism" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2011-06-08 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p210856_index.html |
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Abstract: Machiavelli operated, as I have shown, in a world as saturated with Averroism as the United States and western Europe were saturated with Marxism in the 1960s and 1970s. He could not have escaped being familiar with the outlines of the doctrine. It was the talk of the town. In this paper, I argue that the most important contribution of Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes to Machiavelli's thinking was their discovery and analysis of a new form of governance, peculiar to the modern world, which he called "the ecclesiastical polity." It is the purpose of the paper to demonstrate that his attempt to develop a strategy to cope with this phenomenon that was the central feature of his political thought. |
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| In the Shadow of Averroës: Machiavelli and the Question of Civil Religion by Paul A. Rahe Department of History and Political Science Hillsdale College Prepared for delivery at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association August 30th-September 2nd 2007 Not for Quotation or Citation without the Author’s Permission All Rights Reserved 1 PDF created with pdfFactory trial version www.pdffactory.com Communion and excommunication are the social pact of the clergy—with which it will be always the master |
| Vanini François La Mothe Le Vayer Gabriel Naudé Louis Machon et Tor- quatto Accetto: Religion morale et politique au XVIIe siècle (Paris: Champion 2002) 39-140; Didier Foucault Giulio Cesare Vanini 1585-1619: Un philosophe libertin dans l'Europe baroque (Paris: Champion 2003); and Nicholas S. Davidson “‘Le plus beau et le plus meschant esprit que ie aye cogneu’: Science and Religion in the Writings of Giulio Cesare Vanini 1585-1619 ” in Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion ed. John Brooke |
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