Prince王子
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作者： Niccolo Machiavelli 著
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出版时间： 1998-4-1字数：版次： 1页数： 143印刷时间： 1998/04/01开本： 32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9781853267758包装： 平装内容简介
When Lorenzo de' Medici seized control of the Florentine Republic in 1512, he summarily fired the Secretary to the Second Chancery of the Signoria and set in motion a fundamental change in the way we think about politics. The person who held the aforementioned office with the tongue-twisting title was none other than Niccolò Machiavelli, who, suddenly finding himself out of a job after 14 years of patriotic service, followed the career trajectory of many modern politicians into punditry. Unable to become an on-air political analyst for a television network, he only wrote a book. But what a book The Prince is. Its essential contribution to modern political thought lies in Machiavelli's assertion of the then revolutionary idea that theological and moral imperatives have no place in the political arena. "It must be understood," Machiavelli avers, "that a prince ... cannot observe all of those virtues for which men are reputed good, because it is often necessary to act against mercy, against faith, against humanity, against frankness, against religion, in order to preserve the state." With just a little imagination, readers can discern parallels between a 16th-century principality and a 20th-century presidency.
目录
Niccol Machiavelli to the Magnificent Lorenzo
1How many kinds of principalities there are, and in what manner they are acquired
2Of hereditary principalities
3Of mixed principalities
4Why the kingdom of Darius, which was conquered by Alexander, did not revolt against the successors of Alexander after his death
5How cities orprincipalities are to be governed that previous to being conquered had lived under their own laws
6Of new principalities that have been acquired by the valour of the prince and by his own troops
7Ofnewprincipalities that have been acquired by the aid of others and by good fortune
8Of such as have achieved sovereignty by means of crimes
9Of civil principalities
10In what manner the power of all principalities should be measured
11Of ecclesiastical principalities
12Of the different kinds of troops, and of mercenaries
13Of auxiliaries, and of mixed and national troops
14Of the duties of a prince in relation to military matters
15Of the means by which men, and especially princes,win applause or incur censure
16Of liberality and parsimoniousness
17Of cruelty and clemency, and whether it is better to be loved than feared
18In what manner princes should keep their faith
19A prince must avoid being contemned and hated
20Whether the erection of fortresses, and many other things which princes often do, are useful or injurious
21How princes should conduct themselves to acquire a reputation
22Of the ministers of princes
23How to avoid flatterers
24The reason why the princes of Italy have lost their states
25Of the influence offortune in human affairs,and how it may be counteracted
26Exhortation to deliver Italy from foreign barbarians
APPENDICES
AThe History of Florence
B(i)Public affairs are easily managed in a city where the body of the people is not corrupt; and where equality exists,there no principality can be established; nor can a republic be established where there is no equality
B(ii)What nations the Romans had to contend against, and with what obstinacy they defended their liberty
B(iii)To found a new republic, or to reform entirely the old institutions of an existing one, must be the work of one man only
CTo Francesco Vettori, his benefactor
DThe art of war
EHistoryofFlorence
FOf how many kinds are republics and of what sort was the Roman republic