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Giving Away What Belongs Reputation For Cruelty Ruler
2,251 words... en-handedness and that many others have risen to very high office because they were open-handed and were considered to be so. I would reply that either you are already an established ruler or you are trying to become a ruler. In the first case, open-handedness is harmful; in the second, it is certainly necessary to be thought open-handed. Caesar was one of those who sought power in Rome; but if after gaining power, he had survived and had not moderated his expenditure, he would have undermin...
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Evil Malicious Manipulative Quality That Would Be Desired Ruler
1,179 wordsMachiavelli main idea in The qualities of the prince is to explain how leaders should achieve their goals without boundaries, . To Machiavelli, a successful ruler is one who can impress people, regardless of what he really is inside. He says that it is sometimes better to seem good than to be good. To him, a good ruler is one that is seen as merciful, faithful, humane, frank and religious so long as it does not interfere with his best interest. He sees no purpose in restraining and controlling o...
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Medieval Thinkers Believed Traditional Medieval Thinkers Machiavelli
677 wordsIn The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, Machiavelli goes against the traditional mindset that a prince derived his power from God. Machiavelli believed that the rulers were given no divine right. He said that a ruler achieved his power through hid own efforts and skills. The traditional thinkers believed that the ruler had to abide by Christian morals like the virtues. On the other hand, Machiavelli said that they did not have to abide by these Christian standards. Machiavelli was in contradiction...
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Entire Play Belief System
1,839 wordsIn Machiavelli's The Prince readers are provided with powerful insights to becoming a successful ruler. Niccolo breaks down into steps what a ruler must take into account in order to control the masses. The character of Lago in Shakespeare's Othello seems to have studied and acted through Machiavelli's teachings. Throughout the entire play his intentions towards empowerment are shown. Lago would have prevailed to be a top student in Machiavelli's class with all his cunning and deception. For the...
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Form Of Government Fear Of Death
1,736 words... e power cannot be taken from the ruler or assembly of men and given to another. If this is done, then the covenant would have been broken, and according to Hobbes, breaking a covenant is injustice. In making the covenant to give authority to the sovereign, they have also every man given the sovereignty to him that bears their person, and therefore if they depose him, they take from him that which is his own, and so again it is injustice (413). Hobbes agrees that the sovereign can commit iniq...
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Peter The Great Ivan The Terrible
1,425 wordsRussia is a nation with a rich past and a history of royalty that cannot be compared with any other in the world. There were memorable rulers, including Catherine and Peter the Great, and rulers that Russia and the rest of the world would like to forget, such as Ivan the Terrible. However short their reign, or how seemingly insignificant their actions, all have had an effect on Russia? s history and have left plenty of colorful images to be written down into history books. One can argue about ho...
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Mandate Of Heaven School Of Thought
1,192 words? n the history of Imperial China the issue of the authority of rulers has been worked out in relation to the prevailing philosophies of their times. The longest, most influential and enduring of these is Confucianism. The philosophy and the w? ? in which it demands virtue and duty from a ruler has n? t always gone down well with rulers of a more autocratic nature and has at times been displaced by the school of thought known as Legalism. Notably the Legalist believed that the people existed for...
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State Of Nature Hobbes Believes
1,958 wordsThrough the development of the Polis, both Hobbes and Rousseau have stood as highly influential theorists of the Social Contract. Although both writers would strongly agree for the development of society and the importance of a Social Contract, the actual methods and ends are quite distinct for each man. Hobbes contract aims at assuring Civil Peace through the use of the ruler to secure the contract in exchange for obedience of the people. In contrast to this method, Rousseau chooses to generate...
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Renaissance Era Political Power
1,531 wordsMACHIAVELLI: THE PRINCE: Themes and Ideas During Machiavelli s time, society was much different than it had been for previous philosophers. Instead of storing up good works, so as to enjoy paradise, as the medieval man did, the Renaissance man was interested in all things, enjoyed life, strove for worldly acclaim and wealth, and had a deep interest in classical civilizations. He was born at a time of conflict within Florence, Italy, between the republican leaders and the family of the Medici s, ...
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Acquires His Power Power Through Other Means Ruler
782 wordsVirtu: The Successful Leader The ruler that comes to rule as a citizen-ruler by virtu will be more successful than a ruler that comes to power by other means. According to Machiavelli, a citizen-ruler is one that comes to rule solely on the basis of his own abilities or virtu. He has done and will continue to do whatever it takes to continue his rule. There are many differences between a ruler that acquires power through virtu and a ruler that acquires power through other means such as heredity ...
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