As contribuições de Maquiavel ao pensamento político e a sua crítica à igreja de Roma

Abstract

This master thesis aims to investigate and to present a construction of the main aspects of Niccolo Machiavelli political theory begining from the censorships that this Florentine thinker made to the Roman Church. Machiavelli condemns the ethical and political behavior of the Church. In a first moment we considered these censorships to present and to develop the critic, especially that that accuses the Church of being the main responsible for the ruin state in wich Italy was in. The antipolitic of the Church represents an impediment for the courtry to follow his course in the same speed of the evolution of other European States of that final XV century. The antipolitic of Christianity presents much deeper roots than those he analysis and compairs with the past events on his time, that they resulted in the political diagnosis of the illness that devastated state of weakness of Italy, as well as its contribution in forming the political notion of the State, it passes, for a critic to the Roman Church and also