Machiavellism

English

Etymology

Machiavelli +‎ -ism

Noun

Machiavellism

1. Machiavellianism
   • 2014, Ben-Ami Scharfstein, The Nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll: Unexpected Essays on Philosophy, Art, Life, and Death, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 152:

     The theory and practice dealt with in this essay are all related to what I call Machiavellism, by which I mean the disregard of moral scruples in politics, that is, the political use, limited only by expediency, of every kind of deception and force.

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