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
VI. The Machiavellian leader 3
Unit overview
Presentation and critical analysis of the characteristics of a leader according to Machiavelli’s Mandragola.
Keywords
deception; virtù
Required readings
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N. Machiavelli, Il Mandragola, https://italian-renaissance-theatre.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mandragola_Translation.pdf
Complementary readings
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Behuniak-Long, Susan. “The Significance of Lucrezia in Machiavelli’s ‘La Mandragola.’” The Review of Politics 51, no. 2 (1989): 264–80. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1407406.