Niccolò Machiavelli

thorough look at how two different philosophers have explained the concepts and principles that make up international law. Specifically, analyzing how Niccolò Machiavelli and Hugo Grotius present contrasting ideas of the original principles of international law and propose different ways through which international law should be justly…

Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince captures a unique place in time. Bound by classical Greek themes of political theory, The Prince also engages with contemporary political framework that continues to maintain its relevance. While some claim that Machiavelli’s work is an obscene form of realpolitik, it can also be interpreted as a profound attempt to create a groundwork that appeals to the reunification of Italy. Machiavelli uses The Prince and the restricted context of political power and…

affected by this rebirth. Art, religion, politics were seen from new perspectives. Italy’s revival brought about many intellectuals, artists, painters, writers, and philosophers who fueled off this new epoch in time. Pico della Mirandola, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Baltassare Castiglione are among these intellectuals whose works made them immortal. Most notable were Oration on the Dignity of Man, The Prince, and The Courtier, respectively, which defined…

Florence was one of the five major city states that rose as a result of the “Dark Age” and black plague. After this, the guild system was rarely used and wealthy, powerful families began to rule (which in Florence was the Medici family). Florence played a major role in the Renaissance because it encouraged and promoted art and culture; it became the center for literature and art and supported those writers and artists affluently. Patrons were the largest supporters for scholars, writers, and…

Niccolò Machiavelli is smart and a strategic author. There are many ways on how to interpret his famous work, “The Prince”. It is intriguing that Machiavelli did not provide a title for the book. In doing so, Machiavelli shows his strategic writing to challenge the reader. To read the book and accept it in a literal sense is questionable. The intended audience rather audiences for the book is anyone that can access the book but the real audience will catch the essence of Machiavelli’s work. With…

same era, Niccolo Machiavelli, an Italian philosopher, wrote a book entitled The Prince. This book set forth the most efficient way to gain and maintain power during the Renaissance. His tactics included ideals such as: the ends justify the means, take calculated risks and rule without ethical thought. Many of the Medici ruling strategies were incredibly similar to those written in Machiavelli’s book; therefore, the actions of the Medici family directly exemplified the advice Machiavelli…

Macbeth in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is unable to maintain his rule through his lack of virtue, even though he comes to power through unvirtuous practices. The way Macbeth runs his kingdom is contrary to the advice offered in Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince. Machiavelli offers that the easiest way to rule is to have a principality that believes the ruler is virtuous. I argue that presentation of virtue, if not absolute virtue, is necessary for an effective ruler. Macbeth comes to power by…

Life is something that can be over any second but still it’s considered to the most precious that we are given by a lot of people; but are there acceptable or even honorable reasons to end the existence of an individual human being, since a plethora of people get killed everyday as a result of contrasting reasons. That's what Brutus struggles with. Julius is his BFF and still he ends up stabbing him in his back, literally and figuratively. Does this make him a bad guy? Brutus decision to…

both loved and feared; if not loved, then feared. He must understand and know the art of war like the palm of his hand. These are just a few of the characteristics of a good leader, a prince, a Machiavellian ruler. In The Prince, written by Niccolo Machiavelli, he writes a political handbook for rulers (and especially for Lorenzo De’Medici) that explains and discusses the ways a prince should lead a state and what…

and Roman literature and art that the Middle Ages forgot. Use of the feudal system declined in favor of monarchies, oligarchies, and parliaments, and the Roman Catholic Pope had less influence on politics. Niccolò Machiavelli’s 1532 The Prince separated political theory and religion as Machiavelli described a successful ruler as one who put aside ethics in the interest of preserving and strengthening the state by any means possible. Centuries earlier, in the mid-1300s, the Black Death ravaged…