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    is about moral behavior. Niccolo Machiavelli was an aristocrat who had his ups and downs according the shifts in power in Florence. His writings encourage a prince to secure power by almost any means necessary. Lao-Tzu’s Thoughts from the Tao-te Ching and Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Qualities of the Prince both have main goals of how to mold a better prince. Their views on government and the ways they attain their goals each differ in method. Machiavelli and Lao-Tzu have very different aspects

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    Case Summary: Confucius‚ Machiavelli‚ and Rousseau Wen Wen 8/24/13 We discussed great philosophy of Confucius‚ Machiavelli and Rousseau last Thursday. Confucius developed his ideas about the year 500 B.C. He believed that it is the virtue such as diligence and good faith that characterized superior rulership and virtue also enabled the ruler to maintain good order in his state without recourse to physical force. For him‚ men are

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    MACHIAVELLI VS. ROUSSEAU Machiavelli and Rousseau were two great minds of European history. They both developed ideas on how to run a country. The two shared some of their views even though they were centuries apart‚ however‚ some ideas were very contradictory. Machiavelli believed in a very strict form of government. His time‚ 15th century Italy‚ was a time of princes and control over everything. People fought wars just to gain another city and blood and guts was a common occurrence

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    Niccolo Machiavelli. Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto illustrates the desire to eliminate economic classes‚ Locke’s Second Treatise of Government protests against unjust rulers by establishing natural rights‚ and Machiavelli’s The Prince is an elaborate guide for acquiring‚ maintaining and protecting a state. Unlike Machiavelli‚ Locke and Marx put their trust in human reason and rationale‚ and argue that citizens have a right to revolt if a government is not meeting their needs. Machiavelli‚ to contrast

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    Monteverdi’s Lamento della ninfa is an excellent example of what a lament should be. A lament is always an expression of grief or sorrow and usually over a loss of love. This loss of love may be due to the death of the loved one or betrayal (such is this case). The lament is not a complaint about unhappy or unrequited love‚ but it is a manifestation of sadness. In most cases‚ Lamento della ninfa included‚ the lamenter is tormented simultaneously by the past‚ present‚ and future: the memories

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    include fear‚ hatred‚ the belief that one is superior to another‚ lack of control‚ and self-destructive patterns. Within the reason category‚ there are the physical aspects of personal gain‚ and the rise and quest for power. Two great philosophers‚ Machiavelli and Francis Bacon‚ write of the destruction through man. Machiavelli’s writing of “The Qualities of the Prince‚” and Bacon’s writing “The Four Idols‚” show their views of human nature and how it can become a destructive force. The quest for power

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    Niccollo Machiavelli – His Lasting Impact If you say the name Machiavelli today‚ the first thing many people may think of is his most famous writing‚ The Prince. They may also have negative thoughts about his philosophies‚ in particular "that the end justifies the means". (Machievelli 164) Niccolo Machiavelli was more than just the author of a controversial book‚ and his impact is still felt today. The dictionary contains the word "machiavellian" and defines it as an adjective "suggesting

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    especially classic realists‚ also believe it can be due to the destructive tendency of human nature. In fact‚ people are viewed as narrowly selfish and ethically flawed‚ with the intent of achieving self-advantage regardless of others. As Niccolo Machiavelli well describes it in 1532‚ in The Prince‚ human nature is inherently evil. Men are always seeking for power and have very strong desires to be better than others. Thomas Hobbes brings the idea of a “state of nature” and supports this idea by arguing

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    "Nowhere Man" by Pico Lyer hits the target in exposing the emptiness that looms our generation. The meaninglessness threatens to swallow us all like a black hole. Lyer includes himself as being part of this new generation and gives his generation the term "transit loungers." Likewise‚ I identify myself as a transit lounger. In Lyer’s essay‚ his term transit lounger refers literally to himself and others like him; they have the so-called privilege of living in an "interconnected and multicultural"

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    practitioners prefer the use of a sterile isotonic solution‚ such as Normal saline while irrigating and cleansing wounds. After many years working with traumatic and chronic wounds‚ I have wonder if there is significant evidence to argue the following PICO question: When caring for patients in need of wound care‚ does sterile isotonic saline reduce infection rate and shorten healing time when compared to tap water? The following research will give us a better understanding on the use of sterile water

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