Abstract

Para Maquiavelo el hecho de plantear al mal como un elemento necesario de la realidad humana le lleva a reconocerlo y a colocarlo como la piedra de toque de todo su pesimismo antropológico. Esta realidad es asumida en su filosofía política en general y en su teoría del Estado en particular.Macchiaveli was driven to state the problem of moral evil as a necessary element within the bounds of human reality; in fact he brought in as a cornerstone of his pessimist anthropological outlook. This thesis is further assumed as the main root upon which Macchiaveli grounded both his philosophy of politics and his theory of the State