The Art of War

Machiavelli believes it is safer to be feared than loved. He states that “it is desirable to be both, but because it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer for a prince to be feared than loved, if he is to fail one of the two” (Prince). Princes, in Machiavelli’s eyes, needs to be feared because if he fails, it is safer to be feared than to be loved. Machiavelli favors fear over love for many reasons. One of the reasons are his views on politics as well as past experiences on…

often sprinkled with such expressions and illustrates why Machiaville’s rhetorical techniques is still reliable, still effective, and still worth studying. Therefore, “a prince must not have any other thought; he must not take any other profession but war and its discipline.” (A World of Ideas) In Jacobus text, he explains It is necessary for a prince who wishes to maintain his position to learn how not to be good, and use this knowledge according to necessity (A World of Ideas). “A prince must…

at opposition the messages are. Though both pieces express the desired way to govern a people, the “Tao-te Ching” speaks of peace, simplicity, and letting the universe work its will, while “The Qualities of the Prince” emphasizes the necessity for war, and the natural wickedness of men. There are no particular reasons that these two ways of thought should be in harmony, one written in the 6th century, and the other the 16th, but they are similar in that they are highly revered and the aphorisms…

When one thinks of an effective leader, many traits come to mind. One characteristic that an effective leader needs to have is bravery. If a leader is not brave then the people of his kingdom will not be confident enough in his decisions. If his people don’t follow him, then his kingdom will fall apart. Also if the leader is brave in battle then his army will follow him. Two other traits that an effective leader needs to be are smart and ambitious. A leader has to be smart to manage an empire…

she can be aggressive and powerful like the lion. By deceiving her enemy with the “harmless” drugged liquor, robbing them of their senses and branding his forehead with the dog’s-paw iron, she uses the crafty notion of the fox. She manages to use the art of deception and disguise by coming up with an aggressive and vindictive plan to unmask the wicked deeds of the merchants’…

Three recurring themes in “The Prince” are good will and hatred, fortun, and warcraft. The first recurring theme in “The Prince” is good will and hatred, Machiavelli always goes back to the fact that a prince must make sure that he is not hated by his people, a prince must take care of his people and not be cruel and if a prince suspects he is hated by this people he should fear them. He discusses this theme in both chapters XVII and XIX. The second recurring theme in “The Prince is fortune in…

In My Reveries upon the Art of War, Maurice de Saxe argues that military commanders must understand the fundamentals of warfare before pursuing innovation. The greatest lesson that De Saxe’s text reveals is that human nature can be controlled through discipline. This is apparent when examining how human nature differs from military culture and by considering how the military uses discipline to control human nature. Adhering to the military culture is not ordinary to the nature of human beings.…

Masculinity Power, honor and dominance, all the necessary elements to be a man. In the novel Things Fall Apart and the short story, The Man Who Would Be King the main characters must sacrifice their themselves in order to achieve what they want the most, which is respect and authority. My paper will analyze the concepts of masculinity in The Man Who Would Be King by Rudy Kipling and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. In the novel, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe there's a man named…

War is beautiful. War is necessary. We must fight because we are right, and the enemy is wrong. When raised in a nation that is free, these three statements will be echoed until it is time to be shipped off to battle. There is no argument or resistance, only a generation of young men that believe their right is not to be free, but to die in hopes that their sacrifice will bring freedom to those they love. “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen is a bitter contradiction about the common belief…

Niccolò Machiavelli is known as the “father of modern political theory” and is known for writing The Prince. The Prince is known as an instruction manual on how to be a leader and how to run a government and dedicated the book Lorenzo de' Medici. The Prince has a lot of fantastic concepts and ideas however some of the concepts do not apply to today’s world. Businesses today need leaders that shows compassion and cares more about the workers than gaining more power. Compassion leaders are…