期刊名称：Reason Papers : A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies
印刷版ISSN：0363-1893
出版年度：2006
卷号：28
页码：19-33
出版社：Reason Papers
摘要：If the soul of Machiavelli, "flown beyond the Alps," could return to comment on the United States' current "war on terror," he might write a book very much like Angelo Codevilla's No Victory, No Peace.1I mean that observation both as a compliment and as a complaint. Codevilla's book shares many of the virtues of Machiavelli's writings, including keen political analysis and a genuine, if rather narrowly defined, love of liberty. (The similarities are not coincidental; Codevilla often quotes Machiavelli, and has penned a translation of Il Principe.) But No Victory, No Peace also shares what from my own perspective (Aristotelian in ethics, libertarian in social theory) are the two chief shortcomings or limitatio ns of Machiavellian political analysis; the result is a book that is an almost perfect fifty-fifty mix of bonum and malum
