Abstract
This paper aims to discuss particular features of the culture and epistemology of history during the dawn of modern times, specifically studying The Prince and The Discourses by Niccolo Machiavelli. The hypothesis is that since the crisis of some ancient-medieval epistemological and cultural frameworks, possibilities were opened for the rise of a new concept of world and reality, which, progressively rationalized, begun to occupy some of the roles of religion as well as of classic political life, giving origin to the reign of science and also of history understood as a scientific discipline, from the second half of 18th century onwards. Regarding this process, we suggest some ideas on whether and how at the referred period the political thought could be thought of as a special form of technology of human action. Keywords: Machiavelli, history, science.
Highlights
Hannah Arendt propôs uma instigante avaliação das vicissitudes sofridas pelo núcleo semântico do conceito de história entre os períodos antigo e moderno
This paper aims to discuss particular features of the culture and epistemology of history during the dawn of modern times, specifically studying The Prince and The Discourses by Niccolò Machiavelli
Regarding this process, we suggest some ideas on whether and how at the referred period the political thought could be thought of as a special form of technology of human action
Summary
Hannah Arendt propôs uma instigante avaliação das vicissitudes sofridas pelo núcleo semântico do conceito de história entre os períodos antigo e moderno.
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