Three Characteristics Of Machiavellianism And Deversiveness

The mention of Machiavelli’s name incites negative connotations. Machiavelli’s message in The Prince is often misinterpreted to suggest that he advocates the idea of “The end justifying the means”. However, Machiavelli never supported the practice of evil in itself; rather, he acknowledged the fact that, in certain situations, evil has to be used. Despite this fact, throughout Europe in the time of Shakespeare, Machiavellian methods were seen as immoral and evil. Shakespeare, however, incorporates the ideas of Machiavelli into his plays because these ideas work for the good of England. He incorporates Machiavelli’s ideas into his play through the dichotomy of characters that is King Richard II and Henry Bolingbroke. Richard II is an inept

Ten characteristics of a good Machiavellian ruler are that he must be Prudent, tactical, considerate, diligent, enchanting, meticulous, noble, observant, avoidance of hatred or despise, and war-wise. A prince must be prudent and observant because he must be aware of those that surround him, he should keep a close watch on his servants. In chapter XXIII Machiavelli writes, “ Therefore, a prudent prince must hold to a third mode, choosing wise men in his state; and only to these should he give freedom.”.A Machiavellian ruler is also diligent and considerate of the people that he rules. In chapter XVII Machiavelli writes, “ A prince,therefore, so as to keep his subjects united and faithful, should not care about infamy of cruelty, because with

The red condition rated women with red shirts, and the blue condition rated women with blue shirts. The dependent variables were attractiveness judgments, sexual attraction, and behavioral intentions. The dependent variables were operationalized because behavioral intentions were observed in regards to dating and willingness to spend money on a date. The researchers used photos from www.hotnornot.com, a web site designed to generate attractiveness judgments where individuals post photos of themselves, and others rate the attractiveness of the photo. For this experiment, a photo of the women was shown, where the women’s face and shirt were visible in color. The participants were then asked to rate the women based on the three dependent variables listed above. The independent variable was manipulated using Adobe Photoshop to change the color of the women’s shirt to blue or red. The men in the red condition rated the target women as more attractive, sexually desirable, and was willing to ask the women on a date and would spend more money on the women that the men in the blue condition. The color red has this effect because of the way it is portrayed in society and on nonhuman

The wicked morality that looms in order to justify the ends, and the disregard for the means to get to those ends: Machiavellianism. The term is coined from the very character of Niccolo of the renaissance age, as he stated and concluded that “only the strongest, most ruthless leader could impose order” (Sayre, 58) and that “the prince must be willing to sacrifice moral right for practical gain” (59). To the naked eye, it would be pretty obvious to note that Machiavelli had a dangerous sort of mentality since war itself, in his opinion, was eventual with the leaders he spoke fondly of. However, maybe Niccolo would disagree, as he suggests to show more insight on his political views. Machiavelli seems to be more complex in nature than many might actually think.

Arguably, the most Machiavellian leader to ever exist would be Joseph Stalin. He abided by three major Machiavellian methods that were stated in the Prince: the ends justifies the means, crush any opposition, and displaying a false character. Stalin had a plan for Russia and did everything in his power to achieve that plan. He wanted to transform Russia into a industrial superpower, a military superpower, and a political superpower. To achieve his goals he committed many horrible crimes against humanity. To be more specific, Stalin killed more than sixty million people during his reign. He was a selfish cold-blooded, heart less, and evil leader; human life was nothing to him. What caused him to develop such evil traits? It all started

The sixteenth and seventeenth were the most important centuries for Europe. During this period, Europe saw rise of Scientific Revolution, skepticism and secularization. This era brought profound changes in the political realm of Europe. It was during this period strong centralized states entered world competition for wealth and power, accelerating the pace of world domination. Many major European powers colonized different parts of the world but struggled to maintain and extend it. During this period, many countries rose to power such as England. The rise of trade and industry made England prosperous. It was during this era England began their world domination by conquering large parts of Asia, America and Europe. While many countries rose to power, others were dwindling such as Italy, leading to division of the country. Italy was torn apart by invasions by France and Spain. Instead of uniting against foreign invaders, Italy split into two factions supporting either France or Spain. Consequently, this era also saw the rise of great philosophers and well-versed men such as Niccolo Machiavelli and John Locke. Though criticized, their influence can be seen even today after centuries of their noted works. Machiavelli and Locke shared many thoughts, but they views were different on idea of government. While Machiavelli suggested an Authoritarian government for success of the state, Locke

George Bush and Niccolo Machiavelli are two very influential political figures that share some similar ideals. Machiavelli's work was never intended to be applied to republics, or a democratic government. The advice written in The Prince would have likely been applied in the time of absolute government, when countries were ruled by one leader. It is a work which, as Machiavelli himself says that his philosophy is only applied to principalities, or what we call dictatorships in modern times.

The Italian wars influenced Machiavelli’s beliefs. Italy was seemingly lifeless and people’s morale was depleted. The malevolent and deliberately evil acts committed during the war affected his negative views on humanity. During his time, Italy was war-ridden, and soldiers were committing atrocious crimes such as raping of women and massacring of citizens. Machiavelli recounts the conditions of 1512 Florence, “In order to spare Your Ladyship cause for worry in your spirit, I shall not report on the details. I shall merely say that better than four thousand died; the remainder were captured and, through various means, were obliged to pay ransom. Nor did they spare the virgins cloistered in holy sites which were filled with acts of rape and pillage.”

Chapter seven in “The Prince”, written by Niccolo Machiavelli, talks about the difference between a person using virtue and fortune to maintain their power. In lecture, Professor Van Den Abbeele defined virtue as, “Whatever it takes to stay in power”. Machiavelli states that a prince who uses his own prowess, or virtue, to will be able to solidify a strong foundation and maintain his power, unlike a prince who uses fortune to rise through the ranks. In the chapter Machiavelli mentions Cesare Borgia, also known as Duke Valentino, as an example of a person gaining power through the fortune of his father, Pope Alexander VI. However, Cesare Borgia would later use his own prowess and intelligence to secure and solidify a strong foundation for him

According to Machiavelli, virtue is hard work and sweat. Machiavelli believes that the Romans were successful at conquering states and then ruling over them by sending out colonies, allowing some identities and powers to remain in the states without sacrificing or increasing their own power, and by keeping the influence of other states out of their conquered states. Machiavelli writes that the Romans not only watched out for the struggles of the present, but they looked out for and avoided the potential struggles of the future. When Machiavelli uses the term cruelty well used he means that violence will be necessary in order to take and keep power. He writes that one should do it quickly and at one time, however, as to not draw out the violence

In Niccolò Machiavelli, The Qualities of the prince a passage in A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers by Lee A. Jacobus describes the essentials of being a prince. Machiavelli discusses the ability to being a great leader is to have knowledge of war, avoid being hated, being feared is better than to be loved, to be cunning, and to keep up appearances. By having these qualities Machiavelli believed having such characteristics would keep what one is leading with efficiency and forward thinking. This thinking was in a setting with war-torn countries, battling for land and resources during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Another author in Lee’s book for college writers, a Chinese philosopher and writer during the sixth century B.C.E., emphasizes his view points on how to lead and how civilization would react to such leadership. in Lao-Tzu’s passage called Thoughts from the Tao-te Ching, describes that imposing fear and all type of greed would lead to people doing the wrong thing such as stealing. Lao-Tzu writes one should not enforce such idealistic’s but to let things “take their course” (59), opposite of machiavelli’s ideas of enforcing justice. Many of what both Machiavelli and Lao-Tau speak of is about human nature and the way common people would behave in different situations.

More than anything else we’ve read this year, Machiavelli is extremely difficult for me to respond to. I find myself agreeing with a lot of his ideas (at least I think I agree with his ideas, his writing jumbles my head around), and most of my comments come from a place of unwarranted rage. One complaint I have is that I think he goes back on his word a lot. The thing is, Machiavelli shoves so much information down your throat every sentence that everything I’ve read kind of melds together in a strange sort of limbo. For example, I’m fairly sure he talks about the importance of being kind and virtuous in the first reading we did, but in the second a lot of it is about being merciless. Maybe those were supposed to apply to different situations.

Machiavellianism is a term to describe dark triad personalities, the other two are narcissistic and psychopath. In leaders and rulers, we call this traits characteristic Machiavellian. Nicola Machiavelli, came up with rules to help leaders keep their powers and political influence. He thought that rulers must wear a mask and be both admired and feared from the outside, but, be willing to do anything to keep their power. That means being dishonest, lying, cheating, killing, and be prepared to sell their soul to the devil to keep their power. However,on the other hand, Machiavelli felt religion was another tool rulers could use to take care of all the problems occurring in society. He says that religion is “altogether necessary” to the formation

Through this IO, my understanding on Machiavelli’s principalities had improved tremendously as the class discussed about his principles of fear and fortune, and connected them to real world examples.

When mentioned to most of the people, Machiavelli is associated with evil, corruption, temptation, revenge, etc. The main reason for this is the book that Machiavelli wrote “The Prince”. The book being completely revolutionary for it’s time is the origin of one of the most immoral political doctrines-Machiavellianism. Widely criticized throughout centuries, Machiavellianism is based on personal gain, achieving and maintaining power. But even thought the main origin of Machiavellianism is considered to be Machiavelli it is arguable weather or not he himself was a Machiavellian but a victim of the church’s hatred.