Cesare Beccaria

Giles of Rome was born in 1243 and died in the year 1316 at the age of 73. Giles was an influential thinker of his time in the 13th century. He also played a large role in politics between the years 1281 and 1284 in Italy. Through out most of his life he also produced many books and writings. Giles was most popular due to his works, controversial opinions and his role in the Aegidian school. His writings covered primarily the topics of philosophy and theology. In philosophy he wrote a large…

Stocker T5.6 The chapter I chose to analyze is from chapter nine, the section in which Machiavelli discusses the best ways to have and maintain a civil principality. Machiavelli does so by using the example of Nabis, prince of Sparta. Nabis who kept his country and his city safe and sustained a siege. Machiavelli says that because the citizens were not hostile toward Nabis, when the imminent danger neared him, Nabis only had to “secure himself against a few subjects.” Machiavelli continues on…

The third topic of discussion is the personal views and beliefs of the Renaissance Man. Document 1 is an excerpt from Machiavelli’s The Prince. Machiavelli states that he believes it better to be feared than loved as a ruler, “...but it is much safer to be feared than loved when one of the two must be chosen. His reasoning behind this preference is supported when he says “Men have fewer principles in going against one who is beloved than one who is feared” because “....fear preserved you by a…

Kim Jong-un: A Twenty-First Century Machiavelli Niccolò Machiavelli believed that in order to be an effective ruler one needed to use whatever methods were necessary to achieve success. In the book he published in the 1500s entitled, The Prince, Machiavelli advised rulers on how to act in order to gain power, keeping in mind that “the end justifies the means”. One current leader who appears to have modeled his leadership principles on Machiavellian teachings is Kim Jong-un, the “Supreme…

While reading chapter 17, I began to realize where Machiavelli is coming from from when he states it’s better to be feared than loved. He believes a prince should be cruel to gain respect from his subjects. He states “…it is desirable to be both [loved and feared], but becasie it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer for a prince to be feared than loved, if he is to fail at once of the two.” If a prince is generous and loved by his people, they will leave him as soon as trouble…

Niccolo Machiavelli’s gift to Lorenzo de Medici, The Prince, is a discourse discussing politics and how a prince should rule his state. Machiavelli describes his beliefs on the most efficient way for a prince to rule and remain in power and validates his arguments by referencing historical examples and using metaphors. One of the most prominent themes of The Prince is fortune. When speaking of fortune, Machiavelli is referring to luck, fate, or chance. He applies this concept to princes and…

Rhetorical Analysis Is it better to be feared or loved? This is an aged old question that has never truly been resolved in over fifteen hundred years. According to Niccolo Machiavelli, he believed that “every prince should be merciful instead of cruel”--nevertheless, his underlying belief was that he felt that, over-all, it is better to feared than loved. He based this premise on the notion that a person who was feared, was respected and not taken advantage of. The main thing is that it is…

Every government has a king, prince, queen, president etc. They are in charge of maintaining leadership and control within the people and the states. In Machiavelli’s work “The Prince,” the ideal prince should be wise, thoughtful, and versatile. Wise in his way he runs the kingdom. Thoughtful in the way he communicates with his people of the kingdom and takes their concern into consideration. Lastly, a prince should be versatile. He should be able to adjust and handle both his duty a ruler and…

The Prince is political treatise written by a prominent political theorist of the Italian Renaissance, Niccolò Machiavelli. Meaning: The meaning and general idea of the book shows the behaviour and qualities of a ruler and their goal of maintaining a safe state (status). Niccolò believed that a great prince or king would be full of virtue, fortune, war, art, cruelty, and going for honor and glory, to do everything for their state safety. Although Machiavelli was a teacher of evil, he brought…

Cesare Lombroso. Illustrative studies in criminal anthropology. III. The physiognomy of the anarchists. The Monist, Vol. 1, No. 3 (April, 1891), pp. 336-343. In “Illustrative Studies in Criminal Anthropology,” Cesare Lombroso discusses studies of which he has undertaken in the area of “criminal anthropology” as they relate to “political criminals.” Lombroso states that “political criminals” have many characteristics of the standard “criminal type” and a specific type of physiognomy, such as…