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Authority in Thomas More's Utopia and Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince

who studied the conditions of power, political struggle, and warfare. As such, we note that this is where his authority stems from...

Leader's Political Role in King Henry V by William Shakespeare

In his political discourse, The Prince, Nicolo Machiavelli believed that political prowess that leads inherently to victory is ine...

Political and Social Concepts of Aristotle, Thomas More, and Niccolo Machiavelli

between both extremes. The fundamental theme of "Utopia" is the determination of the best state for a commonwealth, the b...

England and Italy's Political Development

a utopian society -- represents a rational philosophy educated by science, motivated by art, and inspired by compassion. Declarin...

Literature and the West's Medieval and Renaissance Cultures

Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...

Comparing Utopia and The Prince

This 6 page paper compares and contrasts Thomas More's book Utopia with The Prince by Machiavelli. The writer considers what More'...

Literary Application of Rene Descartes' Method

Goldings Lord of the Flies, for example, gives a view of civilised society which is by no means optimistic. He takes a group of ch...

Comparing Niccolo Machiavelli's the Prince with Thomas More's Utopia

or socialism. More realized that it would be hard to find an established model to point to and so he created his own. More explain...

Necessary Qualities of a Prince in Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince

Once on the throne a Prince will have enormous power. But how does he keep this power? Machiavelli addresses this topic by stating...

Dystopian and Utopian Literature from 1500-2000

design a society that people might like. For example, in terms of sexual repression, Mores Utopia would allow people to see one an...

Raphael Hythloday in More’s Utopia

Hythloday understands that princes normally have a nature that enjoys money and war, as stated in the following: "For first of all...

Utopian Political Philosophy Criticism in The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

In seven pages this paper examines Chapter XV of The Prince in a consideration of how it criticizes the political philosophy descr...

More's Utopia as a Superior Model when compared with Machiavellian Ideals

of all possible worlds, at least as he saw it. Much of The Prince looks at the world through the eyes of the monarch. Machiavel...

Niccolo Machiavelli and Italian 'Princes'

different styles. Yet, while this may be the case, certainly there must be lines drawn and the author is not quite so critical of...

Niccolo Machiavelli Characterized in The Prince

realist, above all, when it came to understanding human nature. He was a founder of the philosophy of history, due to his reflect...

Terry Alford's Prince Among Slaves

as much narrative, as documentary, as historical or human horror. Horror not from the aspect of grade-B movies, but the reminder ...

Machiavelli's The Prince and Thomas More's Utopia

society, that notion would not be true. MACHIAVELLI: In my view, the people are the most important concern and not the legacy of ...

Machiavelli's The Prince, Thomas More's Utopia, and European Identity

with the following excerpt: "Under the equator, and as far on both sides of it as the sun moves, there lay vast deserts that were ...

Self Concept and Personality

was. In addition, children from abusive families are likely to grow into abusers themselves. Now, were not intimating that...

Utopia of Socialism

theory could exist, if only individuals would work for the good of society instead of placing selfish aims above all else. Wells ...

Comparison of Thomas Aquinas's Writings and The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

greedy for gain" (Machiavelli 56). Men, Machiavelli argued, were by nature more interested in their own good than in achieving th...

Justice in Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince and Plato's The Republic

he considered to be the most significant reason society is its own opposing force. According to Hobbes, subjects of the omnipoten...

Utopia and Hell Visions in the Works of More, Voltaire, and Sartre

woman who all her life has rejected any opportunity to choose her path in life, as well as any responsibility for her actions; and...

Analysis of Relativism vs. Absolutism

In ten pages this research paper discusses the philosophical arguments of Jean Paul Sartre, William James, Michel de Montaigne, Th...

Thomas More - Utopia

why it has that affect. In this paper we will consider the last two paragraphs of Mores work giving an opinion on the affect it...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Book review/Niccolo's Smile

it and hold it, are equated in contemporary society with the most ruthless of dictatorship, that is, leadership that is characteri...

Power Justification

The ruler was seen as Gods representative on earth and his use of absolute power was justified by his receiving the right to rule ...

Cruelty According to Machiavelli

can look at contemporary examples to prove this point. For instance, there is something called an intervention in twelve step prog...

Power from the Perspectives of Niccolo Machiavelli

government. In fact, there are many theories and ideologies rendering leadership, and then there is Machiavelli. Much of Machiavel...