The Multiple Figures of People in Machiavelli's Discourses
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https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-3173.2020.v43n2.08.p133Keywords:
Machiavelli, People, Discourses on Livy, Freedom, Political participationAbstract
In the reading of the three major political works of Machiavelli is recurrent the use of the term popolo, or some correlate. Thus, if Machiavelli’s interest in the figure “people” seems clear, what does he mean by it? Is it possible to establish a sufficiently homogeneous and definitive conception of people in Machiavellian thought, particularly in Discourses? The purpose of this study is to show that, although an idea of popolo as a political actor in Machiavelli’s work is present, his conception is not definitively fixed, let alone that it can be homogeneous and static. Instead, it can be said that the conception of popolo in Discourses is polymorphic and varies according to the concrete historical conjunctures in which it emerges on the public scene, so that it is an idea in permanent and continuous transformation.
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