Machiavellian

Malcolm: In Opposition to Machiavellian Ethics William Shakespeare often presents his audience with a vast range of characters throughout his written works, and even a wide range within individual shows. We are offered complex anti-hero characters such as Macbeth who question their actions and then later regret them, and in contrast to that characters like Richard III who have Machiavellian aspects to them, and instead of being effective through certain qualities such as grace, humility, and prudence

In the 14th and early 15th century, rulers in Europe were undertaking the task of reestablishing the power of the monarch after its age of weakness during the Middle Ages. The age that led up to the Renaissance was a constant struggle for the monarchs. They depended on councils of nobles and the church for financial and militant support. This confined their ability to accomplish goals for their nation without the approval of someone else. They lacked the capability to make any move without being

In Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince, Machiavelli strives to break the standards of city-state leadership and royalty. He does so by going in depth into multiple sections of politics ranging from religion, currency, and morals. However, throughout history, many scholars have regarded him as an evil man who recommends unrestrained violence and loss of morals in return for a good city-state. I believe Machiavelli was not an evil man for his teachings, but he does bring up unreasonable outcomes for his

As accessibility to and the advancement of the new media increases, our control over what we choose to see to decreases exponentially. Although advertisements do not seem to manifest harmful effects, many advertisers use Machiavellian tactics to sway the opinions of people. Such tactics include: clickbait, which makes use of targeting the curiosity of viewers to simply click on a specific link or video, and data mining, the tracking of recent searches to show advertisements specific to what the robots

The Machiavellian Approach to Management Whether you love him/her or hate him/her everybody has one…a boss. Most people have their own opinions as to what kind of boss it is that they would like to work for. Most would probably agree that the worst kind of boss is a new boss. This is more than likely due to people’s extraordinary fear of change and the unknown. Whatever the reason, the employee always has the option to leave their position and seek work elsewhere. The same can not be said

The maintenance of a state requires the ability to act in accordance to the times. The Hobbesian and Machiavellian discourses in relation to the legitimacy of violence are distinct, nonetheless, bring forth significant arguments. Machiavelli claims that leaders ought to be good as long as the times permit, however, the leader with virtu ought to prepare to enter into evil when forced by necessity. Contrary to popular belief, Machiavelli does not endorse violence, rather he provides advice to those

the consequences they all face due to their actions. King Lear’s two daughters, at first, display Machiavellian leadership traits, but succumb to lust and personal desire, distracting them from their effective ways of leadership. Both daughters fall from their royal positions as a result and ultimately lose rulership, passing away at the conclusion of the play. King Lear does not exemplify Machiavellian leadership by concealing his insecurities and making poor decisions such as handing rulership of

Shakespeare chronicles, albeit with considerable artistic license, the meteoric rise and similarly swift fall of the work’s eponymous tyrant – Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Throughout the tragedy, the playwright portrays Richard, a self-proclaimed Machiavellian and the discontented brother of the newly crowned king, as exactly the sort of cunning and ambitious man capable of succeeding in his plot, proclaimed earlier in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 3, to “set the murderous Machiavel to school” (Shakespeare

The five central characters in The Counselor, presents us with a plethora of Machiavellian characters to examine. You must be a fine liar, in this story of greed, sex, and murder with shocking and irreversible consequences to all those involved so prepare for a change in fortunes. The infamous Mexican drug cartels can strike fear in the hearts of all those who cross them, but nothing could prepare them for Cameron Diaz as Malkina in the Counselor. She is a pathological liar, who is now living the

on objective events and the quickest path towards absolute power, as opposed to the morality of such a path, differs from Socrates’ approach entirely. Socrates, having always dealt more with the subjective than the objective, would discount the Machiavellian prince as too individualistic, and not focused enough on the greater good. In addition, Socrates would be opposed to the political system to which Machiavelli’s prince would lead as its foundations would be laid upon unjust actions committed in