Evil is anything that defies good, evil is that of which is wicked and immoral and there is no shortage of evil in the stories of Boethius, Dante, and Machiavelli and evil is still very abundant in life in today's day and age. Each of these men approach how to deal with evil in very different ways from one another. From the different ways they choose to take evil on or cope with it Boethius's way of coping with evil is the best way from studying excerpts from “The consolation of Philosophy”.
From reading “The Divine Comedy: The Inferno” by Dante Alighieri I noticed that he is everything of the opposite of the traditional protagonist in a story that I've read. Instead of being a brave man who only needs himself and his own will to take on …show more content…
In “The Prince” he gives advice to as the text says a prince on how he should rule for the best of outcomes. The advice that Machiavelli gives is not all necessarily good advice though, he points out that as a ruler there are some things that you must do without involving moral. “ From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other; but because it is difficult to combine them, is is far better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both.” (Pg.305) This excerpt from “the convergence of cultures” shows what I was speaking on as far as Machiavelli and some of the advice that he gives to Princes, he would much rather you make people fear you than love you which in the eyes of many is an evil thing. When someone is feared it is of course not because of the good that they have done for people but the evil deeds that they have committed which grants them power out of fear. But this indeed does make sense. If you're ruling and everyone loves you, you would naturally believe that to be a good thing but it can give more incentive for more harm to be done to you as a ruler. Without that fear being instilled into people they may feel that they can do things to disrespect you or harm you. With fear you can hold more control over the people and what they do, your word is law and it …show more content…
“ 'For since good and evil are opposites, the weakness of evil is shown by establishing the strength of good, and vice versa.'” (pg.88) This is the best approach on how to handle evil because it is in a positive way, you cannot give into evil nor can you simply fear it and not do anything about it but instead you can combat it with good. Doing what is right and helping others, simply being a good person. Boethius does not make the thought of dealing with evil complicated, it's simply put and regardless of evil or good one can only overcome the other if you give in to one or the
From reading “The Divine Comedy: The Inferno” by Dante Alighieri I noticed that he is everything of the opposite of the traditional protagonist in a story that I've read. Instead of being a brave man who only needs himself and his own will to take on …show more content…
In “The Prince” he gives advice to as the text says a prince on how he should rule for the best of outcomes. The advice that Machiavelli gives is not all necessarily good advice though, he points out that as a ruler there are some things that you must do without involving moral. “ From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other; but because it is difficult to combine them, is is far better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both.” (Pg.305) This excerpt from “the convergence of cultures” shows what I was speaking on as far as Machiavelli and some of the advice that he gives to Princes, he would much rather you make people fear you than love you which in the eyes of many is an evil thing. When someone is feared it is of course not because of the good that they have done for people but the evil deeds that they have committed which grants them power out of fear. But this indeed does make sense. If you're ruling and everyone loves you, you would naturally believe that to be a good thing but it can give more incentive for more harm to be done to you as a ruler. Without that fear being instilled into people they may feel that they can do things to disrespect you or harm you. With fear you can hold more control over the people and what they do, your word is law and it …show more content…
“ 'For since good and evil are opposites, the weakness of evil is shown by establishing the strength of good, and vice versa.'” (pg.88) This is the best approach on how to handle evil because it is in a positive way, you cannot give into evil nor can you simply fear it and not do anything about it but instead you can combat it with good. Doing what is right and helping others, simply being a good person. Boethius does not make the thought of dealing with evil complicated, it's simply put and regardless of evil or good one can only overcome the other if you give in to one or the