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This paper discusses the correspondence between Vettori and Machiavelli in terms of how these letters can lead to a further unders...

power. For example, Machiavelli points out that the ruler becomes great in the eyes of the people by overcoming difficulties and o...

that the tendency to engage in wars is a human invention, and that the inevitable result of innate human tendencies or instincts. ...

speech offers a concise picture of the Athenian perspective on government, the social order and the citizens role in that order. H...

to understand the last mans comprehension of these notions, and why the last man is not able to create beyond himself, one has to ...

as falsely inferred, would have good reason in the end to become distrustful of all thinking" (Nietzsche 821). Those who wished a...

leadership. Leadership is more than simply doing what the people say they want. It is acting to fulfill the needs of the people in...

explains more precisely: " There were too many volunteers and too few heavy machines. But then, rather quickly, a crude management...

have been utilized in both historical and contemporary politics: (a) The use of diplomacy and the formation of coalitions; (b) Vio...

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...

and philosophy have looked at such issues. Some contemporary philosophers claim that all things are really comprised of energy and...

In four pages this paper examines the philosophical insights each of these works offer. Five sources are cited in the bibliograph...

ground, whether that is through dialectical discourse or reason (1994). Barber claims that neither approach leaves any room for po...

aside and did not dig any deeper--there is also something suspicious in it." " (Nietzsche 257). It is here that the philosopher im...

for Life," commenting that ...we must seriously despise instruction without vitality, knowledge which enervates activity, and his...

whatever they become, defining their being through a projection of what they foresee of themselves in the future....

seem to discuss how she is a gift perhaps, sent from some higher power. This would indicate that she is perhaps thought to be beau...

In the context of a greater philosophy perhaps, a philosopher says what he thinks. Yet, he is unwittingly part of a grand plan. Wh...

Zarathustra begins as follows: "When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into th...

reference regarding a camel fitting through the eye of the needle. Certainly, Nietzsche did not mean to suggest anything beyond th...

all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...

the true nature of man and the meaning of individuality. In looking at Nietzsches works, one can see that he sees individuality a...

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

the idea that the aristocracy was inherently better than other socioeconomic classes and, therefore, entitled by their superiority...

underpinnings for decision and action, nonetheless real for being symbolic. It is my contention that such constellations of enshri...

The philosophy of existentialism originated among late nineteenth century philosophers such as Keirkegaard...

The time of Piaget was a time when new awareness was also coming to the specific condition of children, as they were seen as separ...

that knowledge is something that grows throughout childhood and it is not linear (Silverthorn, 1999). His theories focused on how ...

he had the same words of contempt. Under an absolute monarchy, he believed, the military or law-enforcing caste was unduly exalte...

knowledge is not as important as faith. That is a significant difference between the two. At the same time, neither admits that hu...