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This paper examines if Niccolo Machiavelli or Plato would have provided Ralph with better advice on governing the island in this a...

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

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

This paper contrasts and compares the political philosophies of theorists John Locke and Niccolo Machiavelli in 5 pages. Two sour...

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

With the new currency, there is fear that the EU will focus on trade over security issues. In the past, Europe has had a lot of pr...

culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

a prince ... cannot observe all of those virtues for which men are reputed good, because it is often necessary to act against merc...

require freedom. It would not be until much later, during the latter part of the eighteenth century, that the world would see imme...

In five pages this paper discusses Machiavelli's views on the concepts of power and leadership. Three sources are cited in the bi...

to order--cruelty, deception, and force were all justified in his view if these forces accoplished the desired goals. In wielding ...

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

or values. It is by understanding leadership and its influences that the way leadership may be encouraged and developed in the con...

rather than singular pleasures. He had an obligation to answer grievances, to hear both sides of a story and to reach some type o...

This essay pertains to the anthropocentric worldview of King Claudius in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and Machiavelli, drawing on his te...

with the name of Chris Matthews because this is the name of the MSNBC television show on which Matthews appears as the host. Howev...

theory is brought forth numerous times throughout Aristotles well-read and well-quoted Nichomachean Ethics. Aristotles vie...

but rather as things were at the time. That one shouldnt strive for better is insinuated, but with the reality of the throne, come...

design a society that people might like. For example, in terms of sexual repression, Mores Utopia would allow people to see one an...

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

In 5 pages this paper examines how the 'Faustian Bargain' is depicted in the literary works Faust by Goethe, Don Quixote by Cervan...

In a paper consisting of five pages Erasmus's In Praise of Folly and The Prince by Machiavelli are compared. Two sources are cite...

In six pages this research paper defines morality within the context of Kant's philosophy and also considers supreme morality's va...

the considerations surrounding his concepts of the mind and he supports his contentions with direct demonstrations of the applicab...

soldier Cesare Borgia, who was at that time engaged in enlarging his holdings in central Italy (pp. 443). Much of what Machiavelli...

and was able to study their political tactics, particularly those of the ecclesiastic and soldier Cesare Borgia, who was at that t...

the fomentation of rebellion, and to encourage individuals to occupy themselves with private rather than state matters. He saw it ...

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

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

influential thinkers of the ancient age. Despite their obvious inter-related lives, they still had significantly differing opinio...