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Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/1970 - 8/31/1970

Funding Totals

$1,500.00 (approved)
$1,500.00 (awarded)

Machiavelli's Conception of Political Virtue

FAIN: FT-10720-70

John Geerken
Scripps College (Claremont, CA 91711-3948)

Study of Machiavelli's conception of political virtue (virtu) against the background of Machiavelli's general ethical thought and philosophy of history. In Machiavelli's eyes, what was the relationship between politics and ethics? What limitations does hisotry impose on political leaders? Expansion of fellow's doctoral dissertation, Heroic Virtue: An Introduction to the Origins and Nature of a Renaissance Concept.