The political philosophy of Han Fei and Niccolò Machiavelli: a historicist reinterpretation
| dc.contributor.author | Barcenas Pardo, Alejandro | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-13T21:18:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-04-13T21:18:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation is an attempt to propose an alternative to the reading of Han Fei's (韓非) and Niccolò Machiavelli's political thought as evil and amoral. I pursue my study through a double approach of speaking not only about the authors themselves but also trying to present the author's own perspective and terminology. My approach, thus, is historicist and as a result it has as a frame of reference the respective intellectual, social and historical environment of the authors in question. First, I argue that Xunzi and Xenophon are figures that most interpretative literature ignores, but nevertheless make a significant contribution to the content of Han Fei and Machiavelli's understanding of human nature and of the virtues that a successful ruler must have. Second, I reconstruct their view of how a ruler should be educated in order to realize that their advice was not aimed at perpetuating those already in power, but to guide those who ought to rule. Then I expand the discussion about the rulers to argue that the two authors propose a regime based on a system of laws that has as its aim stability, peace and common good. Finally, I argue that their use of history, employed to understand the processual nature of politics, turned their philosophical approach into an early form of the historicist framework used in this dissertation. | |
| dc.description.degree | Ph.D. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/101827 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | University of Hawaii at Manoa | |
| dc.relation | Theses for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (University of Hawaii at Manoa). Philosophy. | |
| dc.subject | Han Fei | |
| dc.subject | Niccolò Machiavelli | |
| dc.title | The political philosophy of Han Fei and Niccolò Machiavelli: a historicist reinterpretation | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text |
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