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  • Machiavelli Believes In A Strong Government
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    Lao-Tzu, Machiavelli, and the American Government Lao-Tzu's "Thoughts from the Tao-te Ching" and Machiavelli's "The Qualities of a Prince" both have the ultimate goal of making better leaders. The tactics that each writer chooses to present as a guide for the leader are almost opposite of each other. Today's American government would benefit from a combination of the two extreme ideas. Lao-Tzu's laissez-faire attitude towards the economy, as well as his small scale, home defense military is appe...
  • Machiavelli Judges People
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    The Right Thing To Do, Is not Always The Right Thing To Do Some say that if one completes his / her studies at the University level without analyzing and understanding Machiavellis work and theories, then that person has not fully utilized the college experience. Machiavelli, by some, is said to be one of the greatest theorists and philosophers of all time. Most critics argue, that he (Machiavelli) is cynical- that he thinks the worst of people rather than the best of them. It is very understand...
  • Ideas Of Hobbes And Machiavelli
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    Machiavelli and Hobbes To be successful, one must have the appearance of virtuousness, but not necessarily be virtuous. At least, this appears to be true according to Niccolo Machiavelli's works. Machiavelli's idea of the virtuous republican citizen may be compared to Hobbes' idea of a person who properly understands the nature and basis of sovereign political power. Hobbes' ideas seem to suggest that most anyone can claim rightful authority as there is a belief in God, and one can under Hobbes,...
  • Machiavelli's Writing
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    Niccolo Machiavelli was born in Florence on May 3, 1469. While working as a clerk in the government, he gained stature when the Florentine Republic was established in 1498. Machiavelli supervised the military operations of the republic. He also was the secretary of the ten-man council that conducted the diplomatic negotiations. During his tenor in the government, Machiavelli became acquainted with many of the Italian rulers and their political tactics. From 1503 to 1506, Machiavelli reorganized ...
  • Stalin By Many People
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    Stalin, by many people today, would be considered a horrible man who had caused much harm to the world. This, of course, is in modern terms. History has a way of reshaping the 'morality' of events over a period of time. Take, for example, the Crusades. The majority of Europeans at the time vastly agreed with their purpose. Now, however, they are seen as a religious leader's abuse of power and an unfortunate loss of life. Will the same reversal occur with the view of Stalin? After all, he did com...
  • Prince To Best Rule A Certain Principality
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    Angel DiPietroProfessor Roberto SabbadiniSocial Life in Medieval and Early Modern Italy Niccolo Macchiavelli and The Prince At the end of the 14th century, Italy was still politically organized by city-states. Emerging as one of the most influential writers of the Renaissance, Niccolo Machiavelli was a political analyst, whose aim was to free italy from foreign rule, as well as to unite and strengthen the Italian city states. Machiavelli believed Italy could not be united unless its leader was r...
  • Machiavelli's Prince
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    The Prince, a treatise by Niccolo Machiavelli, was arguably one of the greatest works of the renaissance. Its new ideas in political theory, although very controversial at its time, were revolutionary and remarkably similar to today's political system. In the following paragraphs I will give a brief summary of this great work and then give my personal thoughts on these revolutionary ideas Machiavelli believed that there are only two ways in which governments are ruled or have ever been ruled. He...
  • Machiavelli Vs Islamic Political Thought Niccolo Machiavelli
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    Machiavelli vs. Islamic Political Thought Niccolo Machiavelli was a political realist. He thought there were certain skills and characteristics needed to become a political ruler. In his work, The Prince, Machiavelli gives advice on how to be a successful prince, or ruler. "Successful" is partly based on how powerful a ruler was during his lifetime (reign), but largely based on how much the prince affected the lives, through laws or societal norms, of future generations. Machiavelli was mainly i...
  • Form Of Stability To Florence
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    The sections that I will be presenting are 73, 74, and 75. I will discuss the political ideas of Niccolo Machiavelli, Francesco Guicciardini, and Thomas Hobbes during the time of Florence Republic. First, Niccolo Machiavelli was born in Florence, Italy in 1469 at a time when the country was in political upheaval. Italy was divided between four dominant city-states, by which each of them was always at the mercy of the continual changing of princes and governments. In Donald Kelley's Version of Hi...
  • Citizens Duty Of Obtain In Virtue
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    The Rules And Duties Of Citizens And Rulers According To Plato, Machiavelli And Aristotle Political philosophy is part of the most influential and enduring texts in all of history. The Aristotelian tradition, following from the philosophy of Plato and continuing in the writings of other modern political philosophers such as Machiavelli, has formed the setting against which all succeeding political and moral philosophy has founded its orientation. The respective rights and duties of the citizens ...
  • Machiavelli Believes
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    In this essay I will first briefly discuss Machiavelli in the context of political thought as a whole, before giving an account of his life and the circumstances which caused to him to write 'The Prince', the most famous of his works. Secondly, I will examine the nature and importance of his ideas before deciding whether his views on morality deserve the degree of significance accorded to them by Berki. 'Machiavelli lies outside the mainstream of European political thought for a number of reason...
  • New States 1 By One's Own Arms
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    Machiavelli's Ideal Prince It seems all the 'great thinkers' of ancient times believed that there had to be a class of oppressors who deserved to have control, and a class of the oppressed who should live in subjection of the elite. Machiavelli is no different and believes "men ought either to be well-treated or crushed" (3). In his writing he explains how one determines who in the state is crushed and who will crush them. As he talks about colonizing on page three he believes the natives of one...

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