Cesare Zavattini

For most citizen’s well known by the name, Machiavelli produces a resemblance of brutality and raw reckoning. The commonplace of the Prince, Machiavelli’s most established work, is seen as lectures to dictators and unrighteous people searching to increase and keep power. Merriam-Webster determines Machiavellian as “ using clever lies and tricks in order to get or achieve something: clever and dishonest.” Machiavellian foreign affairs were more distinctly described by Harvey Mansfield in the opening

There are many different ways on how a prince or ruler could come into power and how they choose to rule once in power. Niccolo Machiavelli wrote the book The Prince based on his own personal opinions on how a prince should rule. Machiavelli writes all of his beliefs based on princes and the monarchy in England/France in the fourteenth century. The principalities that Machiavelli wrote about can be compared to many European leaders. One European leader that has some differences to what Machiavelli

Cunning. In politics, there will always be someone more powerful than the prince and there will be times when brute force will not suffice in enabling them. In such situations, the capable prince must be capable of outsmarting the opposition, if they wish to remain relevant. Decisive. The worst thing a Machiavellian prince can do is nothing at all. Neutrality only breeds animosity from both sides of the conflicts. The competent prince must, when tasked with choosing a side, declare their allegiance

For many centuries, there have been many leaders and rulers around the world making their own rules and decisions. In the Book “The Prince” by Niccolo Machiavelli, Machiavelli describes ways that leaders can be successful if they follow his advice. One leader that shows Machiavelli’s advice by the way they rule is Adolf Hitler.The way he ruled was by fear, violence, and by conquering other countries. Although Hitler had some failures during his lifetime, he shows how Machiavelli’s advice is relevant

According to Machiavelli, a prince learns such virtue by particular kinds of study: first, and most importantly, the study of warfare. He should spend lots of time strategizing, exercising, and preparing himself for battle. Such training makes a man more likely to achieve power through conquest, and less likely to succumb to laziness once he achieves it. In addition, any prince who wishes to be powerful should also study histories of successful princes, to understand what has worked for men in the

How is being feared rather than loved the superior quality that a leader should possess? Niccolò Machiavelli states in the “Qualities of the Prince” that “One should like to be both one and the other; but since it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer to be feared than to be loved” (14). Determining which of these two qualities a leader should possess had been a topic of discussion for centuries. So what makes Machiavelli’s work any different? First off, Machiavelli was an Italian

In Machiavelli’s “The Prince”, Machiavelli is able to express and display his own theories and views on how a prince should act in certain situations. The style that Machiavelli uses to explain himself it is very straight forward and most of the time the opposite of what people would think. Machiavelli’s concept of being a lion and fox appears in Somadeva’s “The Red Lotus of Chastity” , where two of the main characters Devasmita and the nun, Yogakarandita, both attempt to follow Machiavelli’s concept

While there were many quotes from The Prince that I thought about using, this is the one that stuck with me the most. “And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things, because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new” (Machiavelli 1532

The Devaluation of Devotion Through Disobedience Throughout Barbara Miller’s translation of The Bhagavad-Gita, Lord Krishna reminds Arjuna of his obligations to act for the good of his people, advising him not to discard his warrior duties or reject the idea of fighting against his own kin. In The Bhagavad-Gita, Arjuna exhibits disobedience through his initial decision not to engage in combat on the battlefield, and he also discards his duties and obligations as a warrior through this protest. His

enacted criminal law. Becker (1963) has suggested that we call the people who involved in these activities as a ‘moral entrepreneurs’. Based on this crime case study, we can identify and related the case with the Individualistic theories. According to Cesare Lombroso (1870) theories , he state that there are individuals who classified as a born as criminals or "born criminal" based on their behaviour and background.