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The Concept of Religion in Machiavelli: Political Methodology, Propaganda and Ideological Enlightenment

open access: yesReligions
This study explores Machiavelli’s perspective on the interplay between religion and political rule. Rather than being an enemy of religion itself, we argue that the Florentine thinker was critical of its particular interpretations and applications ...
Elias Vavouras, Michail Theodosiadis
doaj   +4 more sources

Machiavelli and constituent power: The revolutionary foundation of modern political thought

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Political Theory, 2017
This paper considers Niccolò Machiavelli’s contribution to a theory of constituent power. Modern authors who have analysed the concept of constituent power generally agree on its ambiguous, paradoxical and apparently contradictory essence.
Filippo Del Lucchese
exaly   +2 more sources

Do the Rewards Justify the Means? Measuring Trade-Offs Between Rewards and Ethical Behavior in the MACHIAVELLI Benchmark [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Conference on Machine Learning, 2023
Artificial agents have traditionally been trained to maximize reward, which may incentivize power-seeking and deception, analogous to how next-token prediction in language models (LMs) may incentivize toxicity.
Alexander Pan   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Machiavelli, Terenzio, e i «sali della commedia»

open access: yesVersants, 2022
L’apporto di Machiavelli all’interno del dibattito sulla lingua della commedia è visibile sia nella teoria, con il Discorso sopra la nostra lingua, sia nella pratica, con la scrittura delle due commedie originali (Mandragola e Clizia). A queste deve però
Sandra Clerc
doaj   +1 more source

Magnetohydrodynamic Flow of a Bingham Fluid in a Vertical Channel: Mixed Convection

open access: yesFluids, 2021
In this paper, we describe our study of the mixed convection of a Boussinesquian Bingham fluid in a vertical channel in the absence and presence of an external uniform magnetic field normal to the walls.
Alessandra Borrelli   +2 more
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Machiavelli și Esposito. Esposito despre Machiavelli [PDF]

open access: yesPolis: Revista de Stiinte Politice, 2021
The present study/article details the partition method/strategy used by Roberto Esposito in The Origin of the Political. Hannah Arendt or Simone Weil? (2017), in a double re-contextualized sense. The first considers the valorization of reintegrative
Viorella MANOLACHE
doaj  

Machiavelli’s The Prince: How to Refute Virtue Ethics in Three Steps

open access: yesStudia Philosophiae Christianae, 2023
This article examines Niccolò Machiavelli’s account of virtues in his famous work The Prince. The Italian philosopher uses three different stages or steps of argumentation. All these steps are analyzed in this paper.
Mindaugas Stoškus
doaj   +1 more source

From Epistemology to Politics Machiavelli’s Reworking of Metaphysics 982a 24-25 in Discourses I, 47

open access: yesOpen Journal of Humanities, 2020
This paper provides an examination of a chapter from Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy (I, 47) in which Machiavelli argues that men deceive themselves in general matters more than they do in particular ones. It contends that in order to defend this claim,
Tommaso De Robertis
doaj   +1 more source

Comparative analysis of civil policy themes in Machiavelli's The Prince and Naseri Morality [PDF]

open access: yesنثرپژوهی ادب فارسی, 2020
political leaders play within citizens lives. The purpose of civil policy is meeting individual, social and spiritual needs and requests in a civil society.
mokhtar ebrahimi, somayeeh sharooni
doaj   +1 more source

Controlled Mechanical Ventilation in Buildings: A Comparison between Energy Use and Primary Energy among Twenty Different Devices

open access: yesEnergies, 2018
Indoor air quality (IAQ) of buildings is a problem that affects both comfort for occupants and the energy consumption of the structure. Controlled mechanical ventilation systems (CMVs) make it possible to control the air exchange rate.
Lamberto Tronchin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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