Between the instant and the continuum, the word and the truth: Juan Blázquez de Mayoralgo's perfect reason of State

Authors

  • Luis S. Villacañas de Castro

Keywords:

Raison d’état, Machiavelism, word, virtue, God

Abstract

This paper will attempt to analyze in depth the theory of raison d’etat put forward by Juan Blázquez de Mayoralgo. Such an analysis will stem from a review and partial correction of J. A. Maravall’s approach to this object of study, and will disclose what it believes to be the specific originality underlying Blazquez de Mayoralgo’s thought by dwelling on the various possible meanings that the term «word» assumes in his work. Such scrutiny will enable us, next, to shed light into Blazquez de Mayoralgo’s theory of raison d’etat within the the basic frame of catholic theology, its role in the discussion against Machiavelism and —though in a smaller degree— in the historical context of the Spanish empire.

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Villacañas de Castro, L. S. (2015). Between the instant and the continuum, the word and the truth: Juan Blázquez de Mayoralgo’s perfect reason of State. Revista De Estudios Políticos, (158), 13–40. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/RevEsPol/article/view/39937

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