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    I think Plato and Machiavelli are known as two orominent philosphers.Who brought out the creativity in the political life.Both them have many simiilarites in between them.The first similarity in them is that Plato wants only the best should be the head of the etate in his view socartes are the best suitable for that job where as Machiavelli thinks that the prince should be the head of the state because he think mostly price are capaable of doing many things which other people can not.Both Plato

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    Machiavelli Vs. George W. Bush The Bush Administration was a very controversial topic after the terrorist attacks on 9/11/01. While some people said‚ “It was the right thing to do‚” others believed it was an outrage‚ and blamed Bush’s ideas on former‚ dictator-like philosophers. Niccolo Machiavelli was a famous political philosopher‚ who was in my opinion‚ the most similar to the Bush Administration. Machiavellis’ ideas on civil liberties‚ what government is supposed to provide and protect against

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    Machiavelli teaching upholds the “prudent” man as the New Prince who‚ through the extensive study and imitation of history‚ acquires the adaptive skill necessary to combat the destructive unpredictability of life‚ virtù. Machiavelli deprecates all notions of hereditary based principalities as well as glory attained by fortune‚ giving higher esteem to those achieving it by their own guile. Machiavelli diminishes the religious context‚ instead associating virtù with the physical and mental capacity

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    Discuss the nature of Machiavelli’s new political morality in relation to being a Prince. Niccolo Machiavelli was born on 3 May 1469 in Florence‚ Italy and at the age of twenty-nine he became a public servant in the service of his city. He was one of most pre-eminent political characters in Florence during the Renaissance although major recognition of his works came after his death. The Renaissance represented a period of changing social and technological evolution for Western civilization as

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    because theoretically Utopian societies are impossible‚ so trying to come up plausible societies in which everything is perfect presents a kind of challenge for them. Of the many philosophers that have given their two cents on the matter‚ Jean Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx’s are two of the more interesting ones. In Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality‚ he writes about this idea of man in the state of nature‚ and how that the primitive state of man would actually be the ideal form of society. In Karl Marx’s

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    level of understanding life as we have mentioned before; in this essay though we have decided to focus on two very influential readings in the prism of literature. The first one being that by Confucius entitled Analects and the second reading by Machiavelli entitled The Prince. We will be trying to compare the two authors based on different themes and concepts; but before doing that we must acquire a certain level of background about both the two authors and the two readings. The Analects of Confucius

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    them by the name of Niccolo Machiavelli from Florence‚ Italy. Niccolo Machiavelli was born on May 3rd 1469 in Florence‚ Italy. Not much is known of Machiavelli’s childhood. As a young man around the age of 29 Machiavelli became a diplomat after the fall of the ruling Medici family in Florence. Machiavelli was involved in many different missions that involved travel as part of the political life after

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    Pope Alexander VI‚ kings in Italy did not respect the popes and their authority. After him‚ other popes continued to increase the power of the church. Machiavelli suggests Lorenzo de’ Medici to make his position great through his goodness. One thing I can notice in this chapter is the ambition for power of the popes who they claim to be the

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    be a mother and a housewife. Many Enlightenment thinkers‚ such as Jean- Jacques Rousseau saw no reason for women’s roles to change. However‚ because the Age of Enlightenment was a time when individuals felt society could be improved through new methods to understanding life‚ there were some thinkers like Mary Wollstonecraft who challenged this old belief system. Similar to the majority of men in his time‚ Rousseau believed that women were made in order to please men. Furthermore‚ he postulated

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    The Social Contract was written by Jean- Jacques Rousseau in 1762. The Social Contract was written because Jean-Jacques Rousseau he thought he had a good idea for organizing government. He thought that all mankind should not focus on the needs of the individual but for the rights of the community. He believed in the general will which is the rights of the community are more important than your own. When it comes to sovereignty Jean-Jacques Rousseau thinks that it’s indivisible. He’s saying government

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