Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince Essay

would see that the Prince of Wales depicted in John Gillary’s painting “The Voluptuary” it is obvious that the Prince would not make a good king. A wise and discerning king is one who will be able to make the hard choices that profit the good of the kingdom. Looking at the picture of the “The Voluptuary” by John Gillary it’s obvious that the depicted…

Introduction: “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both” (Machiavelli 1532 p. 58). Many have no doubt heard this quote in some form over the years but few probably have examined what the quote really means. Niccola Machiavelli, the Italian author of said quote put it something like this: fear and love are two key components in leadership. If your constituents love you or fear you they will follow you. However, he said it is better to be feared than loved because it is…

Machiavelli’s The Prince is often described as being harsh, ruthless, or unethical. These reactions are expected, for idealism, theory, and morality played no role in his intentions. His tone is amoral, however, his argument is intended to dismiss and purposefully ignore moral or ethical bias in The Prince. His analysis is essentially a “how-to” guide to obtaining and keeping power. With an approach similar to biopolitics, Machiavelli draws from trends analyzed in historical records to…

Even though violence is meant to destroy, violence is justified in order to achieve lawfulness because all sensible violence is a sought to achieve justice, sometimes violence is a compromise in and of itself. The most obvious answer people give to why violence is wrong is because violence quite simply destroys; however, if you consider justice as the destruction of injustice, then violence can be justified. All violence with any amount of reason behind it, is sought for the purpose of justice…

The American passion for anti-hero has ushered in a new age of film; as the contemporary era progresses, the gray area between right and wrong becomes morally hazy. Despite antisocial, hostile, or immoral behavior, the anti-hero always somehow seems morally correct to the audience or the reader. Characters who were before social pariahs have now evolved into a template for fictional protagonists. And so dawned the era of the anti-hero. Those who liberate people of moral burden reject the…

of War, Prince’s, and how it’s better to be loved than fear. The Art of War talks about a Prince concerned about using harsh tactics to get his way. “The Prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules, and it is of such force that it not only upholds those who are born princes, but it often enables men to rise from a private station…

In Machiavelli’s book “The Prince” he discusses methods to achieve a powerful position for those seeking power and how to maintain it, as well as getting people to submit to their authority. According to Machiavelli, a Prince must heed his book’s teachings and present themselves as a man who should be either feared or loved by the citizens of his kingdom with no exceptions if he wishes to rule with no constraints. But what steps must a prince take to be feared or loved and reign successfully? Or…

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) was an Italian historian, philosopher, writer, politician and diplomatic. He based his knowledge on the vernacular literary tradition and the Latin classics, using them not in a formal way but as models of life and political behaviour. Machiavelli was against the ideas of Savonarola, the very strict Dominican friar of the city of Florence, who had an important power during the rule of Lorenzo de' Medici. Years after Savonarola’s death (1498), Machiavelli…

Alexis Chew 09/20/15 Lacayo 3rd Period Beccaria - A Reformer, Jurist, and Economist “Every punishment which does not arise from absolute necessity is tyrannical,” -Cesare Beccaria Beccaria was an 18th century philosopher that belonged to the social and intellectual world of the Milanese enlightenment. He was born on March 15th, 1738, in Milan into a wealthy family. Beccaria's ideas for government ended up impacting not just Milan, but the whole world. He studied at the University of Pavia,…

and most often heartless, Machiavelli proves near the end of chapter ten in book one of the Discourses that he in fact does not condone such behavior and even that such will be the root of destruction. In this passage, Machiavelli focuses on what a society is like with a “good” prince versus what a society is like with a “bad” prince. When Machiavelli describes a prince as bad he means that they acquired power by inheritance (with the exception of Titus), and a prince who is good is one…