Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET November 2021 Political Science
Who amongst the following wrote The Art of War?
AHobbes
BMachiavelli ✓ Correct
CMao
DRousseau
Correct answer: (B) Machiavelli — The Art of War, among these thinkers, was written by Machiavelli.
Explanation
★The Art of War, among these thinkers, was written by Machiavelli.
★His Dell'arte della guerra, published in 1521, was the only major prose work printed in his lifetime.
★It is cast as a dialogue in seven books and argues for a citizen militia in place of hired mercenaries.
★Machiavelli distrusted mercenary armies as disloyal and ruinous to the Italian states.
★Hobbes, Mao, and Rousseau did not write this treatise, though the ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu wrote a separate work of the same English title.
★The Art of War complements his two political masterworks, The Prince and the Discourses on Livy.
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