Collingwood talks about the autonomy of politics in itself from ethics like Croce does. For this reason there is a similar admiration for Machiavelli. It is not the same for the politician, because he is a free and rational individual, responsible for his actions. Croce can't but consider actions far from the ethical category: this category is interpreted by Collingwood as a "historical education", in his opinion it as a category removed from "the flux of reality". For Croce ethics is more remarkably an unavoidable moment of man's spiritual life to such an extent that a politician should stop being a man if he wants to be free from ethical values.