Course : Authority and Leadership from Thucydides to Adam Smith
LEPE1 - Despina Vertzagia, Georgios Steiris, Spiros Tegos
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I. Introduction: Authority, Power, and Political Leadership
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II. Thucydides and Xenophon: Political Leadership, Power, and the Art of Ruling
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III. Plato and Cicero: Political Knowledge, Virtue, and Auctoritas
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IV. The Machiavellian leader 1
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V. The Machiavellian leader 2
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VI. The Machiavellian leader 3
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VII. Thomas Hobbes: Authorization, Sovereignty, and Political Obligation
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VIII. Authority of the assembly and democracy in the work of John Adams
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IX. Authority of the institutions of the Old Regime and the authority of the new republican institutions during the French Revolution
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X. Authority, power, and the common interest in political systems according to David Hume
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XI. Authority, power, and the common interest in political systems according to Adam Smith
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I. Introduction: Authority, Power, and Political Leadership
IV. The Machiavellian leader 1
Unit overview
Presentation and critical analysis of the characteristics of a leader according to Machiavelli’s Il Principe.
Keywords
virtù; caso; fortuna
Required readings
- N. Machiavelli, The Prince: https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/machiavelli1532.pdf
Complementary readings
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Dietz, Mary G. “Trapping The Prince: Machiavelli and the Politics of Deception.” The American Political Science Review 80, no. 3 (1986): 777–799. https://doi.org/10.2307/1960538.