Para Maquiavelo el hecho de plantear al mal como un elemento necesario de la realidad humana le lleva a reconocerlo y a colocarlo como la piedra de toque de todo su pesimismo antropológico. Esta realidad es asumida en su filosofía política en general y en su teoría del Estado en particular.Macchiaveli was driven to state the problem of moral evil as a necessary element within the bounds of human reality; in fact he brought in as a cornerstone of his pessimist (...) anthropological outlook. This thesis is further assumed as the main root upon which Macchiaveli grounded both his philosophy of politics and his theory of the State. (shrink)