Niccolò Machiavelli

Shakur had respect for Niccolo Machiavelli. He read about Machiavelli while in prison. Niccolo Machiavelli was an Italian War strategist. He was down with faking one's death to deceive the enemy. Machiavelli actually wrote: "Sometimes it has been a great moment while the fight is going on, to disseminate words that pronounce the enemies' captain to be dead or to have…

inherent in the conception of a free and thriving republic. In Niccolò Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy, this is a central claim as to how republics can remain successful. Machiavelli uses the Discourses as an opportunity to celebrate free states, and illustrate how these states came to being. He uses examples from the past as a key guide to determining the future for those in charge of establishing a republic. Specifically, Machiavelli likens the prowess of Rome to how a proper republic should…

and counterproductive in the way of achieving happiness. Machiavelli advocates a choice — between choosing good or evil — that would have the Prince learn when the best option suited his needs. In a Machiavellian world the necessity to survive superseded the concept of ethical decision making, and thus exploitative tactics of deceit are non-impeding towards achieving purpose. The most distinguishing difference between both thinkers (Machiavelli and Aquinas) is that, respectively, one considers…

The Tyrannical Philosophies of The Arab Spring Both Niccolo Machiavelli 's “The Prince” Étienne de La Boéties work “The Politics of Obedience” discuss the philosophical views behind a tyrant and the effect of this political structure on the people being ruled. While Machiavelli seems to focus on the techniques tyrants use to maintain power keep their elite status, La Boéties discusses the approach from the point of view of the people being ruled over. Both pieces give the audience an insight…

century Italian philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli. Machiavelli’s governmental system was also based on human corruption and the idea that multiple sources of chaos must be quenched by a single chaos, very similar to Hobbes. Machiavelli supported the idea that people need to be ruled by a single ruler that could help govern the nature of humanity. This idea is identical with Hobbes, and serves as the main point of Hobbes’s philosophy on government. Both Hobbes and Machiavelli argued that a ruler…

Political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli rejected the notion that a king should follow Christian teachings and the belief that Christian morality was in charge of politics. Instead he believed that political rulers should forgo notions of good or evil and focus on strengthening their kingdom. In his novel The Prince, Machiavelli studied politics by using reason. He states that a while it would be nice for a prince to have “all…

Around 1513, Niccoló Machiavelli wrote The Prince, analyzing political power and laying out advice on how to be an effective ruler. Focusing primarily on ways in which to obtain authority, gain an obedient following, and maintain power, Machiavelli forms an argument that it is better to be a leader that is feared than loved. In other words, Machiavelli stresses that effective political power is reduced to the manipulation of others…

In his book, J. Patrick Coby describes how Thomas Cromwell and his politics were influenced by Marsilius of Padua and Niccolò Machiavelli. Thomas Cromwell: Machiavellian Statecraft and the English Reformation appears to be written as a work of popular history it reads, however much like a scholarly work of history. The book uses a section outline in which it describes situations based on the subject and it has no exact timeline. The book also lacks footnotes instead of focusing on a large list…

into her life in hopes of reinstating his family to the throne. In a scene that takes place shortly before he initially encounters Mia, he meets with his scheming uncle who demonstrates a trick that he learned from “an old Italian philosopher, Niccolò Machiavelli.” The uncle tells his nephew that he can make his dart hit the bull’s-eye without fail; he then proceeds to walk cockily to…

Niccolò Machiavelli lived more than eighteen hundred years after the lifetime of the ancient philosopher Plato. Because of the difference in the societies the two lived in, it can appear that their ideas are irreconcilably different and that Machiavelli totally discards Plato’s philosophy. Machiavelli even appears to mock Plato’s Republic when he writes that “many writers have imagined republics… [and] anyone who abandons what is done for what ought to be done achieves his downfall” (53).…