Essays 31 - 60
This paper discusses the just war hypothesis as it relates to The Prince. This five page paper has no additional sources listed ...
virtue. Niccolo Machiavelli lived between 1469 and 1527 (Hutchinson Dictionary of World History, 1998). Born in Florence h...
This paper discusses the ways in which freedom is portrayed in Machiavelli's The Prince. This six page paper has four sources list...
In five pages this report considers this little known 1531 work by Machiavelli and argues that it presents a complete picture of t...
In Machiavellis view, it is mans desire to attain the unattainable, which is the greatest threat to humanity. As soon as he accep...
In five pages this report contrasts Machiavelli's social opposition theory with the perspectives of political theorists Thomas Hob...
This paper contends that Machiavelli's collected works laid the foundation for the beginnings of modern political science. This te...
This paper examines the importance of political fortune in this analysis of The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli consisting of 5 page...
This paper addresses Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy in terms of how ambition affected society during the Roman Empire. This fiv...
he considered to be the most significant reason society is its own opposing force. According to Hobbes, subjects of the omnipoten...
In seven pages this paper analyzes the assertion of Niccolo Machiavelli that his philosophy is devoid of idealism while critics ha...
is not a description of Washington, D.C., in the late 20th century but representative of early 16th century Italy. "The Prince" ...
a man runs into a colleague with a woman half his age. He might assume that this married man is engaged in a clandestine romance, ...
experienced difficulties with your own people. While there will be dissension in government, and people will give opinions that ar...
also been associated with seriousness and intelligence, however, a man who realized that in order to accomplish a goal one had to ...
soldier Cesare Borgia, who was at that time engaged in enlarging his holdings in central Italy (pp. 443). Much of what Machiavelli...
classical realism and to assess the general ethical issues raised by realism and the relationship between science and politics" (F...
a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...
armies. By the middle of the 16th century, Italy had become a battleground for the ambitions of France and the Empire, and the Ita...
to vote for them, even though another candidate is more qualified. Suetonius writes in the Twelve Caesars something akin to Pri...
Once on the throne a Prince will have enormous power. But how does he keep this power? Machiavelli addresses this topic by stating...
Machiavelli had been imprisoned by the opposing Medici and he saw how the conflict between politicians can destroy what issues are...
realistic appraisal of the people they were expected to lead (Ahsan, 2002). Machiavelli detailed what he considered to be ideal l...
the Ten which he maintained until the fall of the republic in 1512 (Kreis). He was heavily involved in the political actions in It...
but rather as things were at the time. That one shouldnt strive for better is insinuated, but with the reality of the throne, come...
In twelve pages the life of political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli and his important works are analyzed. Four sources are cite...
warning regarding change: "Changes in estate also issue from this, for if, to one who governs himself with caution and patience, t...
of his less knowledgeable subjects. There were several basic principals that Machiavelli put forth for his new princes-to-be. Fir...
readings in Western political science. The Prince was written in response to the decay of the Italian states-system" (Hoyt, 2002; ...
of the government was quick and without "civil commotion." But while Machiavelli praises Agathocles on one hand, he also points ...