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Bathory, Dennis. "The Augustinian Moment: St. Augustine and Machiavelli on the Roman Republic" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Sheraton Harborside Hotel and Conference Center, Portsmouth, ME, Apr 30, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p89979_index.html>

Bathory, D. , 2004-04-30 "The Augustinian Moment: St. Augustine and Machiavelli on the Roman Republic" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Sheraton Harborside Hotel and Conference Center, Portsmouth, ME Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p89979_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Both St. Augustine of Hippo and Machiavelli make elaborate �use� of Rome and Roman history in the service of very different political agendas. Machiavelli�s �use� of the first ten books of Livy as the point of departure for his Discourses is widely discussed. Augustine�s �use� of Roman history is, of course, meant to serve his own political agenda. That his agenda, like Machiavelli�s, leads to a defense of republicanism is less widely acknowledged and discussed. I argued a very different case in my Political Theory as Public Confession [1981], and more recently and more directly Robert Markus [�Pride and the Common Good�, 1995] has argued that Augustine defends the Roman Republic, supporting republicanism with an attack on the pride of domination and empire and substituting a new understanding of the common good upon which to found a renewed republicanism. My intention is neither simply to restate my own or Markus� positions but to compare the use of Roman history in the City of God and the Discourses in hopes of exploring both the contours of the neo-republican debates of recent years and the role of military conquest and empire at the core of Roman republican history. In the latter case, of course, Augustine has much to offer. Furthermore, there is an �Augustinian Moment� well represented in the early modern world � one that is very much associated with modern republicanism. The Reformation is, of course, heavily indebted to Augustine. I will suggest that a comparison of the Augustinian and Machiavellian �moments� of the early stages of modern republicanism is important to a fuller understanding of both Augustine and Machiavelli and the neo-republican discussions of recent years.

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