%0 Journal Article %T THE MACHIAVELLIAN CONCEPT OF CIVIC VIRTUES %A MATEI OANA %J Societate £¿i Politic£¿ %D 2011 %I Universitatea de Vest Vasile Goldis din Arad %X The Machiavellian moment seems to be more andmore influent in the context of the 20th and 21st century. Machiavelli¡¯s legacy,once associated with an immoral way of thinking, is, nowadays, more and moreinterpreted and appreciated. This paper tries to argue that Machiavelli createda new concept of virtues, civic virtues, and this concept is not completelyopposed to the traditional Greek concept of virtue, in fact, virt¨´ and arete aretwo concepts with common origins. %K virt¨´ %K the second reason ethics %K prudence %K savio %K phronesis %K civic virtues %U http://www.uvvg.ro/socpol/images/stories/2011-1/9.pdf