表題番号:2001A-140 日付:2004/11/20
研究課題シヴィック・ヒューマニズム概念の再検討-フィレンツェ歴史叙述における祖国愛と修辞術
研究者所属(当時) 資格 氏名
(代表者) 社会科学部 助教授 厚見 恵一郎
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This article aims to put Machiavelli's Il Principe in the Florentine rhetorical tradition, and to review its relation to his historiography under the early modern transformation of philosophy/rhetoric problem. As some recent studies show, the revival of ancient rhetoric in the 15-16th centuries' Florentine humanism had a great influence on the style and composition of Il Principe. However, rhetorical factors in Il Principe such as paragone and periodus suggest not only that Machiavelli is in the Ciceronian tradition of practical----not aesthetic----rhetoric, but also that classical rhetoric/philosophy debate undergoes an important change in Florentine and Machiavelli's rhetorical historiography.
  Ciceronian tradition of practical rhetoric emphasized two aspects of philosophy-rhetoric relation. (1)Philosophical truth (ratio) needs rhetoric (oratio) as persuasive means to be effective truth (verita effettuale), i.e., philosophers must be rhetoricians. (2)Eloquence must have philosophical truth as foundation of it, i.e., rhetoricians must be philosophers. Machiavelli's (and Florentine) practical and rhetorical historiography presupposes just the first meaning, and omits the second.
  In my view, the first meaning of the practical rhetoric is in the center of Florentine instructive historiography. In Renaissance humanism, history is regarded as the mixed field of philosophy and eloquence. In other words, the mixture of 'history as discovery of truth (=true intention of the political man)' and 'history as effective policy lessons' formed 'the politics of history' in Renaissance, which can be traced back to Thucydides and Polybius. According to Leo Strauss, Hobbes discontinued this 'politics of history' as a kind of historicism, and Rousseau resumed it as 'the second wave of modernity'.