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to use almost any means to achieve his ends that has the most direct appeal to many amoral leaders of today. Some psychologists fi...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Concerning war for example, Machiavelli (1515) writes: "With us there is great justice, because that war is just which is necessa...

take a proactive approach, taking Harry to a drug centre where addicts were, taking a very different approach than would have trad...

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

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

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

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

people. Machiavelli contends that every ruler does not want to be mean or cruel leader and rather, they want to be merciful (58)....

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...

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...

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...

toy and so she takes him home. The child learns that he cannot get everything he wants and he is well taken care of as his mother ...

Rather Dionysus, Falstaff is his "Silenus, the fat, old drunken companion...(who) lends humor to Dionysian celebration" (367). Acc...

At the opening of the novel it becomes clear that Tom Wingo is having some sort of emotional or mental crises. This is brought on ...

and sorrow" (Prince; 1). She was soon sold off to a master and then began to learn about being beaten and abused as a slave. Sh...

actually benefits the economy of the United States? Anyone with any intelligence, or anyone who pays even the slightest bit of att...

that he has mercy as well as wisdom. None of this his father sees. King Henry IV tells his son in scene ii, Act III, that familia...

the event of Savannahs hospitalization after a second suicide attempt and Toms journey to New York to assist her psychologist, Dr....

realistic appraisal of the people they were expected to lead (Ahsan, 2002). Machiavelli detailed what he considered to be ideal l...

This 4 page paper examines Machiavelli's work and its applicability to Europe and the world. Examples are provided. Bibliography l...

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...

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

of the government was quick and without "civil commotion." But while Machiavelli praises Agathocles on one hand, he also points ...