Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince Essay

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    Describe the qualities of Machiavelli’s ideal prince in relation to one contemporary or historical leader. What characteristics should a prince possess, and how should a prince behave and lead his people, and how does this advice from Machiavelli play out in real life with the leader you chose as an example. Is their leadership good for their people? Neighboring countries? The world? Every person has their own individual skills that make us different from each other. This applies even to…

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    “Rousseau offers an unrealistic and damaging account of human nature” critically respond to this statement with reference to either Hobbes or Machiavelli. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a political philosopher who has made a great impact on the area of politics. Even though his perspectives are utopian and are different to both Hobbes and Machiavelli. His contribution has made a significant impact in the way that politics is conceived. Therefore, it is the contention of this essay by using…

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    The major concern of Machiavelli is how states should be run and not how morals are to be followed. The Prince must be a beast if necessary. In the notorious chapter XV111 of The Prince, he advocates that The Prince be a mixture of the lion and the fox. The quality that a prince must have is virtu. This virtu can as J. H. Whitfield correctly suggests, mean 'virtue'. But as he further states, 'basically, virtu is the exercise of his freedoms by the man of energetic and conscious will' [13]. This…

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    More specifically, if a prince achieves a good end, he will be respected, regardless of the methods he employed to get there. A prince should act virtuously when he is able to, yet there are times in which he has no other choice than to act cruelly. In addition, a reputation of generosity requires a lot of money; expensive and ostentatious demonstrations of giving take away from the budget for protection and projects that benefit the community. Therefore, a prudent prince should not mind being…

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    1. What does Machiavelli mean by Fortune? How does this relate to a prince and to the public at large? Machiavelli talks about fortune as a means to rise to power. He implies that fortune is a form of luck that without will of the person controls half of that person’s actions. When talking about fortune, he talks about free will which supposedly controls the other half although fortune directly correlate with a prince’s success or failure. when he says that “to one who governs himself with…

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