Machiavellism
English
Etymology
Machiavelli + -ism
Noun
Machiavellism
- 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.
- 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:
Further reading
- “Machiavellism”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Machiavellianism, Machiavellism at Google Ngram Viewer