Niccolo Machiavelli

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Table of Contents Niccolo Machiavelli Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction.
  2. Machiavelli.
    1. Early life.
    2. Concern with study of political reality using history or interpretations.
  3. The Prince: Advice for a good prince.
    1. Princes must know the art of war.
    2. A prince must 'commits himself'.
    3. Choosing between being loved or feared.
    4. Ignoring injustices.
  4. His division of the kinds of political systems in two parts.
    1. The bad.
    2. The good.
  5. His book Discourses.
    1. cynicism about human nature.
    2. Influence of the ideas of Aristotle and Plato.
  6. A major response to Machiavelli's work.
  7. The speach by Montesquieu.
  8. Conclusion.
  9. References.

Abstract

niccolo machiavelli (1469-1527) is one of the most ambiguous political scientist of the history. Some used to qualify him as being immoral because of his promotion of force and deception to protect a State. However, according to the researchers that have analyzed his works, he is "the restorer of the Roman conception as civil wisdom [...] and the founder of the theory of modern republicanism based upon this conception" (Viroli, 1). He is also considered as "the first writer to move way from the paternalism of traditional society, towards something closer to our own notions of democracy" (Cohen, 33). Who is he in reality? What are his major goals? These are some of the questions that I will try to answer. machiavelli was born in Italy. At this time, Italy was a wealthy, cultural, and politically stable country. It was divided into communes or oligarchies governed by princes or elite. Cities that choose another political system were rare but used to exist; one of these was Florence from which machiavelli is rooted in.

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