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HoP 351 - Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Roman Catholic Church and the Discocity

The idea that you might sometimes have to depart from what would normally be considered virtue sounds very incompatible with Christianity. Is that just because he doesn't care? Well, that's very interesting. They are in tremendous tension with Christianity. And that goes back to what I was saying about the fact that we're talking here about a classical moralist. His categories are not Christian. One is that he is a full info of the Roman Catholic Church. It's completely corrupt. He says there's something much worse about Christianity, which is that the religion should be a civil religion. We want religion to help us to lead good civic life and this is what the Roman religion achieved.

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