The Art of Power by von Vacano Diego A

Author:von Vacano, Diego A.
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780739152096
Publisher: Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2013-06-25T16:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 Letter to Francesco Guicciardini written circa 21 October 1525 (in Capata p. 962). See CW 987.

2 Berlin, “The Originality of Machiavelli,” p. 70-71.

3 See, e.g., BGE 4 197, where Nietzsche describes him as a healthy, “tropical” (intemperate) man. Also, EH III 1. Safranski recognizes that Borgia is indeed one of Nietzsche’s central paragons yet does not elaborate on the idea that Nietzsche tends to find nobility “primarily in the Italian Renaissance,” something that could have led him to see the import of Machiavelli for Nietzsche (See Safranski, Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography, p. 264-5). Kaufmann does not believe Nietzsche endorses the example of Cesare Borgia (See Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist, p. 224-225). The reason this may appear correct is that Borgia’s life does not evince a philosophical self-consciousness that Nietzsche would endorse; his life was pure action. However, for Nietzsche this in itself is one of the many forms a higher spirit may take in the world of man (see also Conway, p. 22, fn. 11).

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