Machiavelli's Cruelty
According to Hobbes, causing harm without a cause creates an environment where a certain type of war thrives: cruelty (Hobbes 1996, 101)
Hobbes argues that men never stop struggling for respect, recognition and worth, leading to jealousy, enmity, and, ultimately conflict and war amongst men (Hobbes 1996, 113)
Hobbes argues that a high number of men try to take affairs into their own hands, controlling businesses, but do it differently, and this entertains the possibility of civil war (Hobbes 1996, 113). Men try to exercise sovereignty over the public, and make the important decisions in the government. Men are knowledgeable and intelligent beings, with vast creative ideas and abilities. With these different intelligent levels, also lie the …show more content…
Sometimes, this desire for protection or feel a sense of security creates the civil war. Machiavelli explains that the princes also crave this feeling of a sense of security and safety. Machiavelli finds that if a prince is an environment where hostility does not exist: there is no enmity. If he has more friends than people who hate him, he feels a sense of security, and this goes a long way in avoiding civil war. However, if he has more people who hate and despise him rather than friends, an environment where civil war thrives is …show more content…
It is described sort of like a prerequisite for the opponents to obtain protection, or something in which they have to give in return, like an exchange. It is argued that in wanting to obtain protection or security, they must also be willing to share power or sovereignty (Thucydides 1954, 31).
Thucydides makes a reference to Lacedaemonians who were of the notion of going to war only under dire need, reaching an understanding in which, they can give peace in place of war (Thucydides 1954, 67-68). He gives an example where if a courageous man experiences harm, he has every right to choose war over tranquility (Thucydides 1954, 68).
Thucydides explains that ground rules were set for going into war (Thucydides 1954, 68). In this case, if war is waged, it is as a reaction (Thucydides 1954, 68). It gives a rational understanding of why war is raged between the two parties.
War occurs if one party harms another party, and people have voiced their concerns about the situation, requesting for war as kind of like a solution, after an understanding (Thucydides 1954, 69). Thucydides presents that this will yield positive outcomes because of their military competence and firm discipline in implementing commands (Thucydides 1954,
Hobbes argues that men never stop struggling for respect, recognition and worth, leading to jealousy, enmity, and, ultimately conflict and war amongst men (Hobbes 1996, 113)
Hobbes argues that a high number of men try to take affairs into their own hands, controlling businesses, but do it differently, and this entertains the possibility of civil war (Hobbes 1996, 113). Men try to exercise sovereignty over the public, and make the important decisions in the government. Men are knowledgeable and intelligent beings, with vast creative ideas and abilities. With these different intelligent levels, also lie the …show more content…
Sometimes, this desire for protection or feel a sense of security creates the civil war. Machiavelli explains that the princes also crave this feeling of a sense of security and safety. Machiavelli finds that if a prince is an environment where hostility does not exist: there is no enmity. If he has more friends than people who hate him, he feels a sense of security, and this goes a long way in avoiding civil war. However, if he has more people who hate and despise him rather than friends, an environment where civil war thrives is …show more content…
It is described sort of like a prerequisite for the opponents to obtain protection, or something in which they have to give in return, like an exchange. It is argued that in wanting to obtain protection or security, they must also be willing to share power or sovereignty (Thucydides 1954, 31).
Thucydides makes a reference to Lacedaemonians who were of the notion of going to war only under dire need, reaching an understanding in which, they can give peace in place of war (Thucydides 1954, 67-68). He gives an example where if a courageous man experiences harm, he has every right to choose war over tranquility (Thucydides 1954, 68).
Thucydides explains that ground rules were set for going into war (Thucydides 1954, 68). In this case, if war is waged, it is as a reaction (Thucydides 1954, 68). It gives a rational understanding of why war is raged between the two parties.
War occurs if one party harms another party, and people have voiced their concerns about the situation, requesting for war as kind of like a solution, after an understanding (Thucydides 1954, 69). Thucydides presents that this will yield positive outcomes because of their military competence and firm discipline in implementing commands (Thucydides 1954,