https://theloop.ecpr.eu/machiavellian-philosophy-donald-trump/ ECPR's Political Science Blog Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:03:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://theloop.ecpr.eu/machiavellian-philosophy-donald-trump/#comment-50758 Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:03:20 +0000 https://theloop.ecpr.eu/?p=19886#comment-50758 As of this morning, 2025-02-25, your discussion of Trump vs Macciavelli, strikes me as very most relevant. It had occurred to me before, but I had not thought it through as you have done, for which thanks. It shall take a better philosopher than I,- perhaps Michael Sandell? - to work through all the questions of morality which come to mind. For, if following the meeting between Trump and Macron yesterday, some short-term beneficial ceasefire is achieved, I find myself unable to accept that Mr Trump should be credited much given the manner of his operation. Yet, perhaps it is that I am too much the idealist. I want Truth, Goodness and Beauty to be integrated in politics (pace Plato). I am struck by your bringing E.H.Carr into the picture, having recently acquired for The Artiscience Library Jonathan Haslam's "The Vices of Integrity: E.H.Carr 1892-1982".

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