Niccolò Machiavelli
1469 – 1527 · Italy · Politics, Philosophy
The Prince separated political analysis from moral instruction.
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- Cicero
106 BCE – 43 BCE · Politics, Philosophy
Machiavelli writes The Prince against Cicero's De Officiis, inverting its counsel of honest rule.
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106 BCE – 43 BCERepublican theory and oratory that still frame constitutional argument.
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