Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET December 2015 Political Science
Machiavelli is regarded as the first modern political thinker because of
ASeparation of ethics and religion from politics ✓ Correct
BForerunner of nation state
CRepresented the spirit of renaissance
DSubordinations of Church to state
Correct answer: (A) Separation of ethics and religion from politics — Machiavelli is the first modern political thinker because he separated ethics and religion from politics.
Explanation
★Machiavelli is the first modern political thinker because he separated ethics and religion from politics.
★In The Prince he treats statecraft as an autonomous skill judged by success, not by Christian morality.
★He freed political analysis from the medieval subordination of the state to the Church.
★His focus is power, its acquisition and retention, in the real world of how rulers actually behave.
★This secular, realist break with the classical and medieval tradition marks the start of modern political science.
★He is also called a child of the Renaissance and the founder of the doctrine that the end justifies the means.
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