OBLIGATION AND THE CITIZEN SOLDIER - MACHIAVELLIAN VIRTUE VERSUS HOBBESIAN ORDER

Authors
DOLMAN EC
Citation
Ec. Dolman, OBLIGATION AND THE CITIZEN SOLDIER - MACHIAVELLIAN VIRTUE VERSUS HOBBESIAN ORDER, Journal of political & military sociology, 23(2), 1995, pp. 191-212
Citations number
44
Categorie Soggetti
Sociology,"Political Science
Journal title
Journal of political & military sociology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00472697
Volume
23
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
191 - 212
Database
ISI
SICI code
0047-2697(1995)23:2<191:OATCS->2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
Niccolo Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes offered conflicting theoretical arguments concerning the social and military value of citizen conscrip tion. Machiavelli found the classic Roman description of the citizen s oldier superior in every way to renaissance Italy's reliance on profes sional mercenaries for routine warfare. Hobbes, believing the passions of citizen armies had provoked the demise of ordered English society, preferred the institution of mercenaries for all but the most dire na tional circumstances.