
HoP 351 - Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Three of the Discourses
There is a big change of mind between the prints, which is a handbook for princes, and the discocity. I would say that there's no change of mind about how to talk about virtu. What he says at the very end of the book, Three of the Discourses, almost in the last chapter of the book was that the concept of virtu in a republic must be cultivated by every citizen. And he says, if I'm trying to remember exactly by heart, this is more or less it.
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