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

A Prince with virtu needed people with virtu in his armies to be able to conquer and control others and to maintain an element of ...

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

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

This is particularly true for Jefferson verses Madison and Hobbes verses Locke. Despite their differences in philosophies, ...

a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...

In five pages the differing political views between Plato and his one time philosophy student Aristotle are discussed with Plato's...

In a paper that consists of five pages Aristotle's strong emphasis upon moral conduct in political leadership is compared with the...

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

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

course, many will argue with this precept, suggesting that the people should rule regardless. Yet, I believe that the people would...

In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...

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

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

possibly think?" (I.3). As this indicates, Aristotles perspective is grounded in observation and reality. He sees the mind as intr...

This paper discusses Richard Kraut's commentary on the intellectual elitism of Aristotle an defines virtue in this overview of Ari...

In a paper consisting of seven pages the concept of marriage rooted in friendship is a view shared by Barbara Whitehead and Aristo...

This paper examines Hobbes' work, Leviathan, as well as Machiavelli's, The Prince as they relate to the beginnings of political th...

This paper examines the similarities between Alexander The Great's military tactics and the political tactics described in Machiav...

derives from the fact that it seems as if it had a familiar or conventional meaning. One might be tempted to try a nonliteral int...

In five pages this paper considers the 'ends justifies the means' position of author Niccolo Machiavelli in The Prince. Three sou...

This paper examines Machiavelli's Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livius. The author discusses Machiavelli's views on...

subdivided into passions and reason (Yu 323). So, too, was his moral character, which explained how man could exist as both a soc...

In nine pages this paper discusses how man's best life can be best pursued, concepts of good and evil, and divine knowledge accord...

In ten pages this paper discusses virtue and duty as viewed in On Duties by Cicero and The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. Three s...

This paper contends that Machiavelli's collected works laid the foundation for the beginnings of modern political science. This te...

virtue. Niccolo Machiavelli lived between 1469 and 1527 (Hutchinson Dictionary of World History, 1998). Born in Florence h...

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

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

reasons, among them the reaction of fear and disbelief. John Stuart Mill addressed the fatalism of his age by theorizing the prin...