Abstract

CURZIO, Leonardo. La forja de un concepto: la razón de Estado. Estud. polít. (Méx.) [online]. 2004, n.2, pp.27-71. ISSN 0185-1616.  https://doi.org/10.22201/fcpys.24484903e.2004.2.37617.

The author examines how the concept raison detat was conceived and shaped.* Although this concept is tied up to Machiavelli's thoughts, the author shows that the florentinian thinker did not coin it such as we know and use it nowadays, and paradoxically was one of its contestants, Giovanni Botero, the first one to use this concept in an explicit manner and to analyze it in a systematic way. The essay examines critically Botero's work, an author who was formerly considered as a second line political thinker, although he has provided interesting approaches on topics such as power, governorship and religion. To concJude, the concept raison detat was born in the cradle layed by the historical dialectics and confrontation between Machiavelli and his impugnants.

Keywords : Giovanni Botero; Razón; Estado; Maquiavelo; Poder.

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