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…
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…
respective writings Tao-te Ching and The Qualities of a Prince. As for their divergent views of the world, it is only to be anticipated that their tactics to management would be vastly diverse as well. The Tao-te Ching expresses serenity, simplicity, and authorizing the universe work its will, whereas “The Qualities of the Prince” accentuates the obligation for war, and the natural mischief of men. When linking Tao-te Ching to The Prince there is an abundant of differences due to the…
A prince should do well if he can, but be ready to do evil if he must. Yet a prince must be careful to always act in a way that appears virtuous, for many can see you, but few know how you really are. If a ruler conquers and maintains his state, everyone will praise him, judging his actions by their outcome. The prince should avoid being despised and hated; taking the property or the women of his subjects will make him hated. Being frivolous, indecisive, and effeminate will make him despised.…
Is Disney the Fairest of them all? Once upon a time, Disney was founded. With it came a whirlwind of sparkles, glitter and ball gowns. From Princesses and Princes, to the evil villain and their team, Disney has it all. But… “Mirror, mirror, on the wall, is Disney the fairest one of all?”. Throughout the years Princesses were depicted as sweet, beautiful and helpless, nothing more, which has been seen as anti-feminist. However recent releases from the company have quietened the outrage by many…
scenes of Prince and his bandmates performing in a very colorful, artistic background with equally colorfully dressed fans cheering and dancing to their music. Also in the video, there are occasionally "cartoons" and artistic animations which shed some art and creativity onto the video. For me, both the song and video were very catchy and before long I was humming the song on a constant basis and replayed the video in my head frequently. Flash forward to the spring of 1986, Prince by now…
Machiavelli’s The Prince, and Sir Thomas More’s Utopia are seminal political treatise that examine in great detail the nature of virtue in humanity. While the concept of virtue and politics in both texts are crucial to both works, the way in which they are treated by the respective authors is divergent and in some circumstances completely polarised. Consideration of the environmental factors and historical influences surrounding both texts gives insight into the variation of virtue in the texts.…
achieve something : clever and dishonest.” The term is of course named after Niccoló Machiavelli, the Italian author of The Prince. While the term has gained a wider usage in modern times to describe cruelty or ruthlessness for the benefit of an individual, Machiavelli argued the use of such underhanded tactics only for rulers in order to strengthen their holdings. The Prince is meant to be a handbook to establish the proper code of conduct for a ruler of a state, nation, or principality. It…
Knocking him out, the little boy was unresponsive and extremely pale which scared the King and Queen. The little boy was admitted into the hospital, although he slipped into an unexplained coma. The king was afraid to lose his son, so he asked the hospital to bring in their best team of doctors who can cure his son. Upon hearing the unexplained trauma of the little boy the team of seven Hathor’s took it upon themselves to analyze the little prince and cure him. for the seven Hathor`s…
Thomas More's Utopia and Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince are two extremely distinctive and contrasting products created during the Renaissance. Both the works produced by More and Machiavelli concern themselves with the fundamental issues of how society maintains itself and continues to work regardless of what occurs. The two contrasting scholars may both focus on society but yet both authors created works with exceedingly distinctive purposes behind the products. More's Utopia can be seen as a…