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In this lecture we explore Machiavelli's writings on republicanism in The Prince and Discourses on Livy to find that he was interested more in power than liberty and believed that republics had the ability to achieve greater power than any other political form in existence.

0:00-3:56 - Introduction to Machiavelli's Political Theory
3:56-7:35 - Conflict and Politics
7:35-11:11 - Why Republics are Superior to Monarchies
11:11-14:02 - Machiavelli, Republics, and Power
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Paul Krause is the editor-in-chief of VoegelinView. He is a writer, classicist, and historian. He has written on the arts, culture, classics, literature, philosophy, religion, and history for numerous publications in the English-speaking world. He is the author of Finding Arcadia (2023), The Odyssey of Love (2021), and the Politics of Plato (2020); he has also contributed to The College Lecture Today (2019) and Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters (2022).