Learning to be loved or to be feared:- Development of pedagogy and conflicting approaches of Humanism in Erasmus and Machiavelli

Name: Reeswav Chatterjee Class: PG I Roll number: 73 Rejuvenation of Classical metaphysical discourses during Renaissance included a significant revival of classical political theology, which advanced to the origination of Modern political thoughts. Discussions about the ideal form of government, their categorization on manifold basis, transformation of the ideals of monarchy, role of the law …

Locating the ‘disease’ in the Community: Shakespeare’s Coriolanus and the Figure of the Warrior.

Paramita Purkayastha, Roll: 58, PG-I.       Neither by my consent shall thou train [thy sons] up to the wars. For he that setteth up his rest to live by that profession can hardly be an honest man or good Christian.... Besides it is a science no longer in request than in use: soldiers …

How Much Land Does a Citizen Need? Property, Freedom, and the Quest for the Ideal Humanist Commonwealth

Arjun Motwani, PG1 - Roll number 34.   "Friends share everything in common" - A proverb quoted by Aristotle in Politics   The idea of actively participating in the pursuit of the common good and of thereby also preserving the cherished liberty of the commonwealth was the cornerstone of civic humanist thought as it developed, …

From Piazza della Signoria to Santa Maria del Fiore: The Role of Public Spaces in imagining communities

Ayana Bhattacharya, Roll-53, PG-I Space is not a scientific object removed from ideology or politics. It has always been political and strategic. There is an ideology of space- because space, which seems homogeneous and which appears as a whole in its objectivity, in its pure form, such as we determine it, is a social product. …

How to Hold Onto Your Sceptre? a Brief Guide to Renaissance Politics and Pedagogy

Sourav Chakraborty/ 009/ PGII “Immortal God! What a world I see dawning! Why cannot I grow young again?” -Erasmus of Rotterdam The foundational breach the Renaissance makes with the preceding ages can be located in its primary engagement with the Roman humanitas, i.e. the overall human nature, the body of civilization and contours of human …

Fashioning a Ruler: On Machiavelli and Basilikon Doron

Balagopal S. Menon, Roll No: 59, PG I Shortly after ascending the English throne in 1603, King James I of England published a revised version of Basilikon Doron (the title, in Greek, means ‘The King’s Gift’), his treatise on politics and kingship. Originally published in 1599 when its author was still known as King James …

THY THRONE,GREAT MONARCH !!

The word ‘POWER’ implied a chaotic and often disruptive notion to numerous thinkers and political doyens who for ages have grappled with the unlined fact of its preservation and dissipation. In all forms of government ,no matter whether they are Political ,Democratic, Aristocratic, Oligarchic, Monarchial or Tyrannical _it is the incessant flow of power which …

Virtù and Fortuna in Machiavelli’s “The Prince”

Aishwarya Sahi, 70, PG- II Machiavelli’s Il principe follows the popular Renaissance template of upholding a ‘mirror’ for princes, of reflecting the ideal (not un-similar to the civic humanist ideal of the vir virtutis) which the young prince must strive toward. Machiavelli endorses (to some extent) the view of Patrizi and Castiglione of the prince …

Negotiating Fortune and Virtue in Machiavelli’s “The Prince”

Sourjya Mitra, PG-I, Roll no. 40 “[…] he who considers it necessary to secure himself in his new principality, to win friends, to overcome either by force or fraud, to make himself beloved and feared by the people, to be followed and revered by the soldiers, to exterminate those who have power or reason to …

Politics and Pedagogy for the Renaissance Prince- Urvi Shah PG-1 Roll- 33

-Urvi Shah, PG-1, Roll- 33 In the course of discussion about the guardians of states and education suitable for such, Plato in his Republic writes-“And what shall be their education… this has two divisions, gymnastics for the body, music for the soul” (2.376e). Gumnastike and Mousike formed the ancient Greek ‘paideia’ or education of the …