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Machiavelli's Unchristian Charity*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Clifford Orwin
Clifford Orwin*
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University of Toronto
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Abstract

The central theoretical chapters of the Prince(chapters 15 ff.) yield forgotten justifications of the road the West has traveled. Machiavelli relieves us of our qualms; in chapter 16, over dangling the carrot; in chapter 17, over brandishing the stick. He thereby lays the moral foundations for societies based, as all modem societies have been, on collective aggrandizement recognizing no limits in principle, and on justice understood as the enforcement of “equal (but otherwise boundless) opportunity.”

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Research Article
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American Political Science Review , Volume 72 , Issue 4 , December 1978 , pp. 1217 - 1228
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1978

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Thanks to my referees for their abundant useful suggestions, and to Mrs. Jean Hewitt, Miss Margaret Imrie, Mrs. Joan McCarrel and Mrs. Mary E. Rous for their assistance in preparing the manuscript.

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