Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xiii
4. Abbreviations xv
5. Introduction 1
6. I Contexts
7. Chapter 1. Civil Reasonings: Machiavelli’s Practical Filosofia 15
8. Chapter 2. Ancient Sources: Dissimulation in Greek Ethics 63
9. II. Foundations
10. Chapter 3. Imitation and Knowledge 101
11. Chapter 4. Necessity and Virtue 135
12. Chapter 5. Human Nature and Human Orders 169
13. III. Principles
14. Chapter 6. Free Agency and Desires for Freedom 213
15. Chapter 7. Free Orders 254
16. Chapter 8. Justice and Injustice 290
17. Chapter 9. Ends and Means 325
18. IV Politics
19. Chapter 10. Ordinary and Extraordinary Authority 367
20. Chapter 11. Legislators and Princes 407
21. Chapter 12. Expansion and Empire 451
22. Conclusions 484
23. Bibliography 499
24. Index 509