Machiavelli, Aristotle and Popular Republicanism

Alessandro Mulieri is Directeur de recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), affiliated with Triangle – Action, Discours, Pensée Politique et Économique in Lyon. He teaches political theory and the history of political thought at Université Paris Cité and Sciences Po Paris. His research focuses on late medieval and early modern political thought, the history and theory of democracy, and twentieth-century Counter-Enlightenment political thought. His work has appeared in journals including the European Journal of Political Theory, History of Political Thought, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Storia e Politica, Raisons Politiques, History of European Ideas, and Intellectual History Review.

• Introduction1. Machiavelli and the Aristotelians on the Origins of Human Society and Prudence2. Machiavelli and Aristotle on Political Science3. Virtue and Fortune in Aristotle, Pontano, and Machiavelli4. From the Aristotelian “Soft” Tyranny to Machiavelli’s Civil Principate5. Democracy as the Rule of the Poor from Aristotle to Machiavelli6. Thinking the Multitude with Aristotle: Machiavelli and the Machiavellians on the Prudence of the ManyConclusionList of References

Mulieri breaks new ground by connecting Machiavelli's political philosophy to Aristotelian thought—a dialogue long neglected in scholarship. This rigorous and well-researched study reveals fresh insights into fundamental questions of political theory. Essential reading for political philosophers and intellectual historians.