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Position:Home>Philosophy> Was Machiavelli a revolutionary philosopher?Question: Was Machiavelli a revolutionary philosopher!? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Yes!. But it was a S L O W moving revolution, which he started!.Www@QuestionHome@Com In a sense, yes!. Many scholars contend that what Machiavelli really wanted was to inspire a movement for the unification of the Italian peninsula into a single nation-state!. That surely would have been a revolutionary development in the world of contending city-states in which he actually lived and wrote!. And it would have taken a wily and machiavellian prince indeed to pull off such a unification, which was the real point of his description of what such a prince would be like!. When the time eventually came for such unification, in the 19th century, the movement was more explicitly revolutionary!. In his writings, it was only implicitly so!. Www@QuestionHome@Com no, he was more of a Renaissance philosopher!. Ha ha!. Www@QuestionHome@Com No, he was not!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |