An Analysis of Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince
How should rulers rule? What is the nature of power? These questions had already been asked when Niccolò Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513. But what made his thinking on the topic different was his ability to interpret evidence: to look at old issues and find new meaning within them. Many of Machiavelli's contemporaries thought that God would make sure morality was rewarded. To these people, it was inevitable that ethical individuals would enjoy success in this world and attain paradise in the next. Machiavelli was not so sure. He used the evidence of history to prove that people who can lie, cheat and murder tend to succeed. Machiavelli c…
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Weitere Autoren: Worthy, Ben
- ISBN: 978-1-351-35330-4
- EAN: 9781351353304
- Produktnummer: 23809712
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 100 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'752 KB
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Riley Quinn holds master's degrees in politics and international relations from both LSE and the University of Oxford.Dr Ben Worthy is Lecturer in Politics at Birkbeck, University of London. His research interests include government transparency, open data and political leadership, and he is the author of The Politics of Freedom of Information: How and Why Governments Pass Laws That Threaten Their Power.
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