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Machieavelli’s The Prince serves to demonstrate the relationship between virtue and fortune by which a prince gains and maintains his power. Though a prince may achieve power through fortune, either by luck or wealth, he will not be able to maintain his power without the execution of virtu, a characteristic indicating strength and skillfulness. Machiavelli demonstrates how the concept of virtu is inconsistent with the conventional denotation of moral excellence, such as charity, truthfulness, compassion

Niccolò Machiavelli was born May third, 1469 in Florence, Italy to a well to do family and received the typical education of the time. He later went on to become a politician, writing many well known works such as The Art of War and the play The Mandrake. However his most well known piece of writing is The Prince an important piece that gives a look into politics of the time period. His writing which is very different from other works of this period often foregoes moral and ethics to show his reader

“It is much safer to be feared than loved.” This quotation was just a specimen of the harsh and very practical political annotation of the legendary historian, Niccolò Machiavelli – philosopher, patriot, diplomat, advisor and statesman. He was born as the son of a poor lawyer in 1498, but he never let boundaries restrict him. He still received an excellent humanist education from the University of Florence and was soon after appointed as the Second Chancellor of the Republic of Florence.2 His political

In France, he met Pope Alexander VI and King Louis XII. The pope arranged a marriage annulment for the king in exchange for his help establishing his son, Cesare Borgia, as the Duke of Romanga. Exchanges like these began to influence Machiavelli’s political though and later Borgia profoundly influenced his views on leadership. Borgia was cunning, cruel and hated by many but Machiavelli thought he had the necessary traits for any successful leader. In 1500, Machiavelli married Marietta di Lodovico

undertakings. One does not have to be completely liberal to seem liberal, in his opinion. Machiavelli’s moral stance states that it is better to be feared than loved. In how he describes this I feel he means it is better to be respected than loved. “Cesare Borgia was thought cruel; nevertheless that well-known cruelty of his reorganized the Romagna-” (Chapter

revolts, which will eventually happen. There has to be a balance between the two sides: love and fear. At the time that Machiavelli wrote this book, The Prince in the year of 1513, he dedicated it to a prince that he was completely obsessed with, Cesare Borgia, which fit his ideals since he does exactly what the book, The Prince tells him to. Today, the person that rules in the most Machiavellian way is a man that goes by Vladimir Putin, who happens to be the current Russian Prime Minister. While Putin

Spencer Erjavec September 04, 2011 3rd Period AP Euro Views of the Nature of Men During the time of the Renaissance, the nature of man, in Europe, went through a rebirth. The idea that the nature of man is unique upon the person was established. The core basis of all men is not the same. Different men are comprised of various types of talents, and not every person has the exact same talents. In addition, human beings strive to live their lives a certain way, which is usually different from

The Morality and Immorality of Necessary Evil In order to maintain a kingdom, does a Prince need to be immoral? According to Machiavelli’s advice in The Prince, sometimes it is necessary to be immoral to obtain a perfect kingdom. “It is better to be feared than loved” is a statement repeated throughout Machiavelli’s book. This statement is a concept that can be viewed as immoral or moral. Other concepts such as a ruler doing evil when politically necessary and the concept that in order to hold a

Although fear is an emotion that the ruler (the sovereign in Hobbes and the prince in Machiavelli) must manipulate and control in both Hobbes and Machiavelli’s political theories, the fear that each of them discuss is entirely different in relationship to power. In Machiavelli’s The Prince, Machiavelli says that the prince must induce fear to his subjects to maintain his power while in Hobbes’ Leviathan, fear leads to the creation of the sovereign’s power. In addition, Hobbes’ Leviathan and Machiavelli’s

1. In Niccolo Machiavelli’s “The Qualities of a Prince”, declaimed that the best strategy to be a prince is to do best that you can to get what you want even if it is going to be cruel and unmerciful, but make sure that you will have the best strategy to make people like you. Machiavelli supports his claims by using the events and the strategies that successful leaders in the history uses like Cyrus, Hannibal, Julius Ceasar, Alexander and others. His purpose is to let the people know what is the