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a prince should behave and when behavior is justifiable. The author also to an extent addresses the nature of man. At least one ca...

but weak, and Medici was allowed to return to power (2000). Machiavelli was dismissed but was soon afterward imprisoned, and sub...

seems to possess a great deal of truth. According to Machiavelli, the conventional wisdom is that a prince "should try not to ins...

He did not believe that methodology was particularly important as different rulers have different styles. Above all, Machiavelli b...

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

different ways: either by a prince, with a body of servants, who assist him to govern the kingdom as ministers by his favour and p...

the most intelligent way to go about ruling a community or a state. But, as indicated in the introduction, there are places where ...

many have said that Napoleon, while a good military strategist and fair leader, had hidden motives. He wanted to make the Bonapart...

This paper discusses Machiavelli's views on women, gender, and politics as demonstrated in The Prince. This five page paper has tw...

has the most direct appeal to many amoral leaders of today. Some psychologists find in his works deep insights as to the nature of...

In five pages this paper uses The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli in support of the argument that power is a condition of capacity r...

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

myths that surrounded the history of England. Most of these tales abounded with medieval kings and castles, dragons and wizards, ...

This paper addresses various tenets of Machiavelli's political theories and details how and why they are still relevant today, hun...

In five pages this paper considers the similarities between these great thinkers in a comparative analysis of Galileo's Starry Mes...

murder should be ignored, a modern ruler might consider keeping local laws, and living in the land that over which one rules. The ...

families, in career and the workplace, for health and contentment" (Wilson). People who have and use emotional intelligence gener...

virtue is something that people can live with on a daily basis. Virtue is equated with doing the right thing in the present. Ideal...

numbers of his Merrymen for strategic and defense purposes. However, expansion brings with it a unique set of problems such as ma...

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 went about pursuing his own objectives to the detriment of the German people.3 However, in analyzing Hitlers rule over Germany...

say "I know thee not, old man," (V.v.47) dashing any hopes Falstaff had of becoming his confidante and the power behind the throne...

has no legal obligation to make its financial records public. Heinrich (2007), however, lists the companys one-year total return ...

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

Arjuna sees "fathers and grandfathers, maternal uncles, brothers, sons and grandsons, comrades and friends, father-in-laws and tea...

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

souls" (Wittenstein, 1999, p. 26) during World War II. Like Americans and a whole host of other foreigners who come to capture a ...

that what is done is not as important as the character of the leader nor of his ability to lead. At the same time, unlike a preach...

but who was the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI ("Cesare Borgia," 2005). He was an Italian General but would resign to becom...

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