History Department Panel Machiavelli's "The Prince" After 500 Years
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2013
- Panelists will include: Michael Ignatieff, renowned author, academic, and public servant, James Johnson, a teacher in the History Department at Boston University, and Edward Muir, the Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor at Northwestern University.
Hosted by Boston University History Department on February 6, 2013.
A thoroughly enjoyable and thought provoking discussion of Machiavelli.
00:01 Machiavelli intro
13:00 Edward Muir intro
15:00 Edward Muir presentation - Machiavelli as republican
Christian republicanism (medieval) versus civic republicanism (renaissance)
The Prince and The Discourses as a dialog
25:10 Machiavelli's background
29:00 The Medici - authority versus power
Savonarola
Second chancellor
The Medici return
34:10 Writing The Prince
37:20 Chapters 16, 17, 18
Why Machiavelli is controversial
44:00 Michael Ignatieff intro
46:35 Michael Ignatieff presentation - Relevance of Machiavelli
Fortuna, chapter 25
Time, politicians and timing
Stuff happens, events are unpredictable
Politicians can't predict but they can react and control
You are not the master of fortune, you need to be aligned to the times
Don't over theorize, politics is local and contextual
Politics is character
Politics is timing, sense of the decisive moment
Conflict is integral to politics and freedom
1:06:30 Q&A
All political regimes are fated to decline?
Chapter 26 - doing great deeds and virtu
Cultivation of appearances
Opinion on Moses
Creating a persona and being subtle
Opinion on Wall Street
marvelous discussion. thanks for sharing
Prof. Clarita Carlos brought me further here. Studied Machiavelli before in my Literary Criticism class.
is there any way where I can access the transcript of this panel?
Watched all of it 1:25:40
Magnificent - the problem with becoming better is to understand our nature and the denying of it is worthless and not constructive -The United States in particular is arrogant for its power and assumes that others that do not meet her goals are - well The Prince
@13:40 Savonarola........ 1498.
Sometimes Reality bites as it makes sense with tones of logic..!
I see the connection between prince and principles , according to Vitoli in a Republic (during Machiavelli’s days) the common man is a vast well encouraged to take part in government , every man could be a prince .
Ignatieff seems a bit too impressed with the supposed heroicism of politics, which is hilarious given the context.
Machiavelli must of lacked acting skills to cover up his ruthlessness course in the end he failed miserably that means everyone saw right through him.