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Thomas Hobbes, Niccolò Machiavelli, and the Executive Power

Author : Paul A. Rahe

Published in: Executive Power in Theory and Practice

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US

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Very little has been written presuming a connection between Niccolò Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes. The latter never once mentions the former by name; and, among historians, a certain prejudice prevails. The absence of evidence is often, without reflection, taken as evidence for absence. After all, historians tend to suppose, if Machiavelli was of any importance to Hobbes, the monster of Malmesbury would have mentioned the Florentine, who was thought to have given the devil his moniker “Old Nick.”1

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Title
Thomas Hobbes, Niccolò Machiavelli, and the Executive Power
Author
Paul A. Rahe
Copyright Year
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Book
Executive Power in Theory and Practice

Print ISBN: 978-1-349-34248-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-01445-0

Copyright Year: 2012

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137014450_5