Political Realism

Machiavelli separated politics from morality and theology, asking only how power is won and kept.

Representative figures · 2

Niccolò Machiavelli马基雅维利

Stripped politics of morality and asked only how power is won and kept; The Prince still unsettles its readers.

Thomas Hobbes霍布斯

A thoroughgoing materialist who derived absolute sovereignty from a state of nature where life is 'nasty, brutish and short'; Leviathan begins modern political philosophy.