ARTICOLI / 3 / di Manuel Knoll
This article shows that human emotions, desires, and passions play an important role in Machiavelli’s analysis and theory of politics. The paper claims that Machiavelli developed a psychology of motivation that is political because it is mainly interested in the driving forces of political behaviors and actions. A political psychology of motivation allows a theorist to partly predict political events and actions and to give advice to politicians because the constant human passions and emotions such as ambition and greed, hatred and fear, will always have the same influence on political decisions.
