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| Morals: morals refers to a more or less coded set of rules, action maxims, duties and prohibitions within a society or group. Most of these rules are unconsciously internalized among the members of the society or group. Their justification and the possible assessment of actions are reflected in ethics and meta ethics. See also values, norms, rights, ethics._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Niccolo Machiavelli on Morals - Dictionary of Arguments
Höffe I 191 Morality/Machiavelli/Höffe: In the Prince [Machiavelli's main work](1) (...) morality doesn't lose any meaning, because the author calls the crime by its name, in chapter 8 he even uses the word in the title. But morality no longer plays the leading role of a critical authority. Functionalization: Instead of calling a prince with a tendency to immorality to moral reason, morality is placed in princely service. In this way its essence, a principle to be followed by everyone and without exception, is Höffe I 192 lost. >Governance/Machiavelli. Efficiency: Machiavelli is not interested in a righteous ruler, but only in the successful politician of power. Good/The good: In place of the moral antithesis of good and evil there is the power-functional antithesis of success and failure: The prince praises the expansively successful man of power. >Power/Machiavelli. Höffe: Often [this] is interpreted as a plea for pure amorality. [But Machiavelli is concerned solely with the question]: "How can a ruler acquire his power, then maintain it and finally increase it to fame? Only because of this question, according to the unquestionably convincing thesis, the usual morality has no genuine place. 1. Machiavelli, N. (2003). The prince (G. Bull, Trans.). Penguin Classics. (Original work published 1532)_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Machiavelli, Niccolo Höffe I Otfried Höffe Geschichte des politischen Denkens München 2016 |
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