POLITICAL QUARTERLY

POLITICAL QUARTERLY

MACHIAVELLI`S SECULARISM

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
1 Asistant Professor; Political Science Department, University of Tehran
2 PHD student of political thought in Institute for social and cultural studies
Abstract
The discussion over a prominent thinker like Niccolo Machiavelli is like a neverending
stream. The proportion of modern thought to Christianity and the intellectual
evolution of Secularism have their origins in Machiavelli`s thought. The explanation
of this proportion has been accompanied by kinds of incoherences to the extent that
have put Machiavelli as the enemy of the religion or against that. Also Machiavelli`s
use of religion as instrument is another reliable interpretation. That makes it ever
harder to comprehend Machiavelli`s ideas. This article tries to indicate some kinds
of identity between Machiavelli`s thought and Christianity which can result in the
recognition of the meaning of Secularism and such intellectual evolution through the
republican exegesis.
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Volume 42, Issue 4 - Serial Number 4
Winter 2012
Pages 225-241

  • Receive Date 26 December 2011
  • Revise Date 23 September 2013
  • Accept Date 06 February 2012