
Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli's The Prince
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The Virtue of Machuvelli
Vier in Latin means man. The question is how with this manly quality, you master this feminine force. This brings us to the moral heart of the book. You need the quality that he calls Virtu. That kind of a man has mastery. And that's the crucial notion for Machuvelli. Fortuna has to be mastered.
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