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In ten pages this trio of philosophers and their philosophies are contrasted and compared. Ten sources are cited in the bibliogra...

employee believes a child is abused, they must call the authorities. If a child has a fight in school, the latest trend is to file...

(Saxonhouse, 1998). This is something thought not to lead to violence, but rather to a profound gentleness (Saxonhouse, 1998). In ...

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

the ultimate goal or greater good." In essence, he is arguing, according to Oldham, that the end justifies the means and that any ...

the Ten which he maintained until the fall of the republic in 1512 (Kreis). He was heavily involved in the political actions in It...

In four pages this paper examines how imagination, power, and truth are represented in The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. There a...

is not a description of Washington, D.C., in the late 20th century but representative of early 16th century Italy. "The Prince" ...

In seven pages this paper analyzes the assertion of Niccolo Machiavelli that his philosophy is devoid of idealism while critics ha...

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

of the United States. Without the philosophies of those that lived in the centuries prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence...

character of the leader nor of his ability to lead. The book is essentially about how a leader can be at his best. While it is tru...

to Locke. Locke was able to succinctly describe and honor the Enlightenment in his belief in the middle class and its right to fre...

threatening. Instead of turning the anger they felt inward, they unleashed their fury outward onto Socrates, a convenient scapego...

would Hobbes be accepted in todays world? Would he fit in at all? These and other questions loom large. Still, each in their own w...

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

it mean for a person to be functioning well-or in this case, to be functioning to his highest capability? Its more than acquiring...

off track and nothing is accomplished. When he talks about "logistics" its fair to assume that he means things like making sure th...

was also Aristotle who determined that in a beehive there was a particular leader, though he called it a "king" (Aristotle, 2006)....

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...

he also suggests that this "writing," in allowing the chief to retain his position, is in effect reducing the rest of the tribe to...

In eleven pages this paper considers Benjamin Franklin's perspectives on society and self in comparison with the views of Thomas H...

In ten pages this essay considers human nature from the perspectives of Thomas Hobbes and Niccolo Machiavelli. Two sources are ci...

The other part listens to reason "as one would listen to a father." Aristotle asserted that there was no absolute, objectively, ...

of his less knowledgeable subjects. There were several basic principals that Machiavelli put forth for his new princes-to-be. Fir...

and "advisors" were, in many ways, far more powerful than the aristocrat holding office. Machiavelli himself was such a creature ...

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

the consequences of these actions. King Lear is an eighty-year-old English monarch who is preparing for retirement. His major di...

In eight pages this paper examines the concepts of Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke as they relate to politics a...

In four pages this paper examines the differences between social morality and political tools as outlined by Niccolo Machiavelli i...