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Machiavelli's Argument Essay

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All of Machiavelli’s political philosophy revolved around the simple theory that all men are bad. The only reason men ever do good is because it will benefit them personally or because they are afraid of the consequences of not doing good.
Machiavelli viewed the existence of religion as being indispensible to the success of a republic.
Machiavelli goes further to say that “there was never any orderer of extraordinary laws for a people who did not have recourse to God, because otherwise they would not have been accepted.” When the “great men” of society want to impose new laws and orders that won’t be understood or accepted they can use God as a means of giving their new and “extraordinary” laws legitimacy. Men do not so easily believe the

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