3. Reality and appearances‚ or if you prefer‚ being and acting‚ are important themes for both Machiavelli and Shakespeare. Why? How do their perspectives on this subject agree or differ? APPEARANCE vs. REALITY IN "THE PRINCE" AND "HAMLET" One of the most fundamental questions in philosophy is the appearance vs. reality. We find ourselves asking the question of what is genuinely "real‚" and what is viewed merely as just an "appearance‚" and not real? It becomes difficult when we assume there is
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The Power in Human Nature Machiavelli’s The Prince captures human nature in a more accurate perception than More’s Utopia. The visual given through More’s Utopia portrays society an optimist’s view. More believes that when given all equal opportunities and provisions‚ people will lead a virtuous‚ unselfish life. People will work for the benefit of other people in order to create an equal and pleasant society. In More’s belief‚ people only turn to corruption when faced with shortages or vanity in
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“Get dressed quickly. Prince Prospero has invited us on his party to stay safe from the plague.” My husband commanded with a gruff. I sighed but followed his command‚ looking over my over-exaggerated ball gowns in my closet he bought me. Choosing the white‚ silver‚ and gold dress‚ I slip it on pairing it with a pair of silver heels. I was just a brown-haired petite mother of nine‚ whom which none were mine‚ that was under strict order of my husband. I were to raise his kids since he didn’t have a
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Observing Leadership at McDonald’s McDonald’s is the most famous and largest fast food retailer in the world and we can easy to find the ways of this company to motivate their employees by leadership skills. I have visited one of McDonald’s stores this week at Copenhagen. It is easy to find out that the line manager leads and in charge most of the work. For example‚ he is observed as a coach of the new or inexperience employee. He teaches the new comer how to use the machine to make the order
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The Black Prince is structured as Pearson’s apologia to his editor and friend P.A. Loxias. This allows Murdoch to address an audience directly‚ pausing for philosophical musings‚ without engaging in the post-modern trick of acknowledging the reader. Loxias and Pearson both write forewords to the main text. Pearson and four other characters offer competing postscripts. Two deny Loxias’s existence. This fulfills early premonitions about Pearson’s unreliability as a narrator. The first significant piece
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Throughout The Prince and Discourses‚ Niccolò Machiavelli talks in great length‚ and seems to endorse‚ power‚ deception‚ and cruelty. There is one passage in particular that I found to contradict Machiavelli’s viewpoint on dominance and to support the fact that he is perhaps a classical republican. The way Machiavelli praises Rome in Chapter 2 of Discourses shows that he believes there is a way to make the system work without a “prince” being feared by his subjects. In this passage he starts out
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Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) was born in Florence while it was under the rule of the Medici family. At this time‚ Italy was a collection of independent city states. As a direct result of this lack of unity‚ it was often overrun by other European powers. Following the expulsion of the Medici in 1492‚ Machiavelli became active in the political affairs of Florence. Primarily he served as a diplomat for the city‚ visiting the courts of the most powerful rulers in Europe. His accounts of these visits
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Alex “The Philosopher” Aquino English 1302-GDH2 Professor Ortiz March 7th‚ 2013 A Hard-Working‚ Unappreciated Prince To pick nominees for the National Salesman Award‚ I travelled around the U.S. interviewing some of the hardest working salesman America has to offer. I travelled from the north to the south to find the finest salesman to give such an honor of being the best of the best. I went to New York to visit my friend Howard and interview some of his sellers. Howard assembled a little meeting
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every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel; nevertheless‚ he must take care not to misuse this mercy. Cesare Borgia was considered cruel; nonetheless‚ his cruelty had brought order to Romagna‚ united it‚ restored it to peace and obedience.” (Page 41). Cesare Borgia lived from 1476-1507. He was known for his brutality and lack of scruples‚ not to mention his exceptionally good luck. He was firm ruler‚ son of Pope Alexander VI. To support this George Wilson wrote‚ “The Prince has
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The Prince: Is it Better to be feared or loved? “It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand‚ more perilous to conduct‚ or more uncertain in its success‚ than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. (23)” This excerpt is no less true today than when it was written five-hundred years ago in “The Prince” by Niccolo Machiavelli. He makes this comment at the beginning of his infamous political treatise because he recognized that men are stubborn
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