Niccolò Machiavelli

Alexander VI and administrator of the ecclesiastical armed force. He made a trip outside of Florence to review military development ventures and portray city designs and geographical maps. He outlined plans, conceivably with noted representative Niccolò Machiavelli, to redirect the Arno River far from equal Pisa keeping in mind the end goal to deny its wartime foe access to the ocean. Aside of him improving the military engineering, his well known inventions: The Flying Machine. An innovated…

“Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack and then they attack others.” This quote by Niccolo Machiavelli clearly illustrates the unceasing thirst in humans to secure goals often at the expense of their own sanity and humanity. In Shakespeare’s tragedy of Macbeth set in an era of superstition and governed by the belief of the Chain of Being, it is Macbeth’s craving for power and position that ultimately consumes his morality. This is…

In life, people have the freedom and right to do what they please. Whether one decides to be good or evil is up to them. A bad person is someone who is selfish and lies without any regard to how it may affect another. Niccolo Machiavelli once said, “All men are evil and will act upon their vicious nature if given the chance.” Authors use allegory and symbolism in their writing to get a hidden point across and leave it up to the reader’s interpretation. In the playwright The Crucible by Arthur…

Historically, it is evident that masculine and feminine authorities display their power in contrasting ways. Three recent studies have concluded that only eighteen percent of men share similar personality traits with women, supporting the common standard that women are more “sensitive, attentive to others and apprehensive, while males are more forceful and aggressive.” (Rettner) While looking at the tragedy King Lear by William Shakespeare, the theme of gender division is outlined throughout the…

In 1440, Johannes Gutenberg invented a new type of movable print- the printing press. Gutenberg was a goldsmith born in Mainz in 1397, and went on to develop his press in the Holy Roman Empire. He saw the printing press as a financial opportunity, due to the high cost of books at the time. Prior to his groundbreaking invention, knowledge was very much limited to the royalty or the religious order because attaining access to any sort of literature was a painstaking task. In order to have a copy…

Morals vs. Ethics Distinguishing between morals and ethics can be a difficult thing to do. Even after presenting definitions of both words, scholars sometimes decide to use the two interchangeably. This may be because the definitions are so closely related. One definition of morals is “proper ideas and beliefs about how to behave in a way that is considered right and good by most people” (Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary, n.d.). The same dictionary defines ethics as “ the discipline…

The King of England, King Edward, claimed the French throne his own. The French apposed this claim. King Edward also angered the French with his possession of French territory. The French believed this endangered their policy of centralization. There was also dispute over control of French land known as Flanders. Flanders ' cloth industry depended on wool imported from England. In the Hundred Years ' War France had the advantage of fighting the war on their own turf, with a larger population,…

liberalism, and constructivism along with their core perceptions of the world and their criticism following regards them through other lenses. The first theory that I will be approaching is Realism which was founded by Thucydides, Thomas Hobbes, and Niccolò Machiavelli. Realism’s core assumptions are: states are the main actors in international politics, states desire power, states are rational actors, and the system is anarchical. Sovereign states are in charge of who they interact with and…

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was chosen as one of the top ten greatest American by Discovery Channel in 2005. As one of the greatest American, the actions and policies taken by Roosevelt had many parallels with Niccolo Machiavelli’s political philosophy. Roosevelt is known by his initials FDR and he served as the 32nd President of United States as an American statesman and a political leader. Roosevelt had the lonegest tenure of United States presisdent record for four elections and served from…

It originated from or through the works of Niccolo Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes. It takes on the assumption that power is the primary end of political action, whether in the domestic or international arena. In the domestic arena, the theory asserts that politicians should strive to maximize their power…