Compare And Contrast Machiavelli And Hobbes

While in exile, Niccoló Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes wrote about their political views on how to inaugurate a sturdy government. During each of their lives, they both contributed political philosophies that had differences and similarities. In Machiavelli’s The Prince and Hobbes’s The Leviathan, their philosophies are portrayed on how to maintain a stable government. Hobbes is recognized as the founder of the most later Western political philosophy in response to the social contract theory he established in his 1651 book Leviathan. Machiavelli is also a founder of an important term that has a lot of meaning in history. He is the founder of “Machiavellianism”, the person considers their goals to be of prime importance and that any method may be used to achieve them.
According to Machiavelli, the first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. As I read this quote I concluded that Machiavelli was trying to say that if you look at the people that surround a ruler, they can only be people that he thinks is as intelligent as him. On the contrary, Hobbes belief on the nature of men states that men might see other people that have different characteristics then their own, but they need to realize that these kind of people who do not portray the same qualities as themselves do exist. Machiavelli was a risk-taker, he believed that people should choose leaders who were able to live with the risks that they took. Machiavelli stumbled upon conclusions through his observations of how individuals actually behaved rather than the way they should behave in a theoretical