If I every decide to enter into an alliance with the Pope to drive the French from Naples, subdue Venice, and restore the de Medici family to power in Florence, this book will be invaluable.Reading this book I kept asking myself the same question as I did reading Thomas More's Utopia: is this guy se...
For a collection of one shots this one wasn't bad, but I never felt this moment of utter adoration, either, so.. Pretty average, but overall enjoy- and readable.
It’s easy to dismiss Machiavelli as immoral and scheming. His name has become synonymous with such. However, though there is no correlation in fact, Machiavelli’s The Prince reminded me of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics. Both seek a simply defined good. Aristotle’s good for the individual was e...
I'm weirdly pleased that The Prince lives up to its reputation: it is indeed Machiavellian. Here's his advice on conquering self-governing states (i.e. democracies): "The only way to hold on to such a state is to reduce it to rubble." Well then.I'd like to say that any guy whose last name becomes ...
This was an interesting piece of satire that, unfortunately, I don't feel I was completely able to appreciate. There were simply too many historical references that I was not familiar with and I got bored.
Don’t really know what to make of this. On the one hand you could accuse Machiavelli of wickedness for suggesting that to rule you need to be a bit of unethical and a bit brutal some of the time, or on the other hand you could praise him for these observations of human nature. In either case you can...
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