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Machiavellism
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English
Etymology
From en Machiavelli -ism.
Noun
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Machiavellianism
en 2014 Ben-Ami Scharfstein The Nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll: Unexpected Essays on Philosophy, Art, Life, and Death University of Chicago Press 9780226105895 https://books.google.de/books?id=NGzRAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA152&dq=%22Machiavellism%22&pg=PA152#v=onepage&q=%22Machiavellism%22&f=false 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.
Further reading
Machiavellianism, Machiavellism
en eponyms