3.4 - Heavens Historians
Good afternoon gentlemen and welcome to Heavens Historians for September of 1681. I hope that you are all enjoying your deliciously cooked meals of orange salad, smoked tongue, and roast quail. You can thank Plato for the meal, he thought of this meal and therefore, it exists now in our stomachs! Anyway, this week we have a very special speaker. I am sure you have heard of this man, I mean who hasn’t? I’ll give you a hint, he is often called “the founder of modern political science” and his major literary work entitled “The Prince” has been known for its controversial perspective on traits inherent in human nature during the Renaissance Era. You guessed it! This weeks’ speaker is Niccolò Machiavelli! Machiavelli was …show more content…
Machiavelli’s literature and ideas earned him a place in history as a political philosopher. However, Machiavelli was not entirely content with his life; he desperately wanted to return to politics and regain his political office in Florence. This endeavor sparked Machiavelli to write The Prince to potentially win an advisory position within the Florentine government. In The Prince, Machiavelli used a theme of humanism to formulated and progress his own theory of effective government. However, the controversies in his work could not be left aside. In his work, Machiavelli stated that “good rulers sometimes have to learn not to be good.” This means that they have to be willing to set aside ethical concerns of that protect our rights and freedoms as citizens in order to maintain a stable government control. Machiavelli used his words to argue that the most successful kings were not the ones who always acted accordingly to the justice system or even their own conscience, but those willing to do whatever it takes to preserve their own power and government to maintain a balanced stability of the state. Machiavelli’s arguments had a significant effect on the Renaissance movement and the attitudes of the
Good afternoon gentlemen and welcome to Heavens Historians for September of 1681. I hope that you are all enjoying your deliciously cooked meals of orange salad, smoked tongue, and roast quail. You can thank Plato for the meal, he thought of this meal and therefore, it exists now in our stomachs! Anyway, this week we have a very special speaker. I am sure you have heard of this man, I mean who hasn’t? I’ll give you a hint, he is often called “the founder of modern political science” and his major literary work entitled “The Prince” has been known for its controversial perspective on traits inherent in human nature during the Renaissance Era. You guessed it! This weeks’ speaker is Niccolò Machiavelli! Machiavelli was …show more content…
Machiavelli’s literature and ideas earned him a place in history as a political philosopher. However, Machiavelli was not entirely content with his life; he desperately wanted to return to politics and regain his political office in Florence. This endeavor sparked Machiavelli to write The Prince to potentially win an advisory position within the Florentine government. In The Prince, Machiavelli used a theme of humanism to formulated and progress his own theory of effective government. However, the controversies in his work could not be left aside. In his work, Machiavelli stated that “good rulers sometimes have to learn not to be good.” This means that they have to be willing to set aside ethical concerns of that protect our rights and freedoms as citizens in order to maintain a stable government control. Machiavelli used his words to argue that the most successful kings were not the ones who always acted accordingly to the justice system or even their own conscience, but those willing to do whatever it takes to preserve their own power and government to maintain a balanced stability of the state. Machiavelli’s arguments had a significant effect on the Renaissance movement and the attitudes of the