Authority and Virtue in the «Prince» of Makiavelli

Abstract

In the article is analyzed N. Makiavelli's political philosophy as a natural product of epoch of Renaissance; established the interrelation of a policy, economy, civil societies and virtues; showed the importance of Makiavelli's creativity for an establishment of a mode of civil society in Europe. Thus the author aspired to overcome extreme and unilateral treatments and estimations of creativity of the well-known Florentine.