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  • Machiavelli's Classic Text
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    Ever wonder why politicians are merciless dogs? Of course you have. Well, here's the answer. Machiavelli's classic text on acquiring and maintaining political power laid the foundation for modern politics, for better or for worse, and remains its bedrock. Machiavelli was an Italian patriot and a long-time member of the Italian hierarchy as a sort of political consultant, having been recently ejected from his position when he wrote this manual. Italy was then in a turbulent political situation, s...
  • Use Of The Prince
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    "I would rather be in hell and converse with great minds than live in paradise with that dull rabble". In his life's writings, Niccolo Machiavelli, sought out the strength of the human character, and wrote according to his own rules; trying to better the political philosophy of his time. Machiavelli, a fiercely independent Renaissance man, advocated the prosperity of Italian politics, and wanted Italy to rise above the rest of the world. Machiavelli's writings dealt with many issues that had not...
  • Machiavelli's Book Of Politics
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    The Prince MAJOR THEME Machiavelli had a true and abiding love for Florence. He wanted to make Florence great and also find himself a job, as he lost his when the Medici family came into power. He dedicated his book on political science, The Prince, to Lorenzo Medici in the hopes that Lorenzo would be impressed and offer him a job. However, Lorenzo ignored the book and Machiavelli. The Prince is a didactic examination of political power, how to achieve it, maintain it, and expand it. Machiavelli...
  • Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince In The Prince
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    Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince In 'The Prince', Niccolo Machiavelli approaches, the topic of political morality and human nature in a very different way than thinkers preceding him. His argument on political morality and human nature is made very clear in the early part of his book. For him politics is war, no matter which way you look at it. "You must, therefore, know that there are two means of fighting: one according to the laws, the other with force; the first way is proper to man, the secon...
  • Niccolo Machiavelli
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    Niccolo Machiavelli tells of the methods that have been the most successful in gaining and maintaining power in non-democratic governments in his classic novel, The Prince. Through a meticulous analysis of political history up to his point in time, he tells of the political strategies that had worked for rulers time and time again and also of those that had failed. Machiavelli maintains that any opposition to a rulers power should be disposed of. He gives the example of Agathocles who had his ar...
  • Letter Machiavelli
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    'The term Machiavellian refers to someone who is unscrupulous, cunning, cynical, and unprincipled' (Goods 1998). Many scholars agree that this particular adjective would have dismayed Niccolo Machiavelli, the man from whom the term is derived. In reality he has been attributed as being one of the brightest lights of the Italian Renaissance through his works as not only a writer, but also as an influential philosopher of history and political thought. His most famous work The Prince has been misu...
  • Niccolo Machiavelli
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    Much of the concentration of the book is on the relationship between the prince and his peers active politic elite. Because ambition and desire for power drive such men, and they are by nature selfish and greedy beings, one must in turn to be aggressive and even ruthless in his methods if the wishes to gain and maintain power. Machiavelli feels that one must take direct action when ever able, and constantly exercise his power in order to maintain his political position. He goes on the state that...
  • Buffett's Son The Qualities Of A Miser
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    On Generosity and Miserliness After reading Machiavelli: The Qualities of the Prince (On Generosity and Miserliness) I realized how much of Machiavelli's ideas can still be applied to today. His explanations of why miserliness was a wiser way of life can be completely converted into scenarios of the present. I agree with Machiavelli's thoughts, because his argument is solid, and because his wisdom has proven to be true throughout time (meaning it can still be applied today). Generosity seems to ...

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