El príncipe maquiavélico y la revolución blanca: la verdad efectiva del Estado virtuoso de los principados civiles contemporáneos en el tratado político El Príncipe y la novela Ensayo sobre la lucidez

Abstract

Within the development of law as a science is the Theory of State as one of the epicenters of the manifestation of public and administrative law, responsible for the protection and surveillance of society through duties, rights and guarantees. Nicolás Machiavelli, father of the Theory of the Modern State, presents within his treatise The Prince a criterion called Effective Truth, which is possible to glimpse in the actions of contemporary States. The objective of the present investigation is to determine the aspects, characteristics, and consequences of the Effective Truth within the contemporary civil principalities, through comparative literature and the theory of the State in the light of the political treatise The Prince and the novel Seeing. To achieve the above, it is intended to identify the Effective Truth in the civil principalities as a possible element of the State theory in the light of the political treatise The Prince and then recognize the elements of the Effective Truth within the contemporary State present in the narrative model of the novel Seeing. Finally, it seeks to analyze the consequences and results of the application of the Effective Truth in contemporary civil principalities (contemporary States) in the light of the aforementioned works. The research corresponds to a transdisciplinary study of Comparative Literature between the Theory of the Modern State present in the treatise The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli and the contemporary Theory of the State implicitly visible in the novel Seeing by José Saramago. This research highlights the positive and negative implications of the application of the criterion of Effective Truth in contemporary States, as well as the limitations and consequences that derive from its adaptation within the Theory of the State in the area of Law.