David Zinland 9/6/13 Period 2 Machiavelli Assignment In The Prince by Machiavelli‚ he lays out a recommended plan on how to manage the city for the current Prince. His plan is today considered to be manipulative‚ and diabolical. Machiavelli might be slightly manipulative but I believe that he is still an astute political mind that is seeking to regain his power. For a long time Machiavelli served as the secretary to the Second Chancery in Florence where he travelled on diplomatic missions
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book The Qualities of the Prince‚ section “On Avoiding Being Despised and Hated” talks about how a prince can avoid being despised and hated from his people. In this section‚ Machiavelli have briefly talked about the general manner of how a prince should react toward when his [prince] subject look upon him as a despised and hated person. What makes the prince hated is if he’s being greedy and a usurper of the property and the women of his subjects. And the only way a prince can persist is not to deprive
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comparing and contrasting. Throughout history‚ it can be argued that the majority of successful societies have been based upon effective divisions of leadership. Accordingly‚ in their pieces of literature‚ The Tao-te Ching and The Qualities of the Prince‚ Lao-tzu and Machiavelli have sought to convey a more complete and concrete understanding of their respective definitions and duties of a ruler (leadership). The theme of political leaders and their intricate relationship with society indeed validate
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Gabriel Kislik Western Heritage in a Global Context Prof. Gu 03/08/13 Power and the Convoluted Intricacies of the Relationship The “Art of War” is an ancient Chinese military treatise written by Sun Tzu‚ a high-ranking military general around late Spring and Autumn period of China. The text is divided into thirteen different chapters‚ each of which is devoted to one specific aspect of warfare. Throughout the past and to this day‚ the “Art of War” has remained one of the most influential
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aspect of life was based upon fate. An example of fate in “The Enchanted Horse‚†would be when the king did not allow the Indian’s reward to marry the princess‚ so the Indian tricked the Prince into riding the horse. The Indian was locked away in prison by the King for allowing the prince to leave on the magic horse‚ Well‚ your head shall answer for it‚" returned the monarch‚ "and if in three months he is not safe back with me‚ or at any rate does not send me news of his safety
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professional killers‚ are on their way to California to kill a man named Hermann Kermit Warm. Charlie makes money and kills anyone who stands in his way. While Eli on the other hand has doubts about what they do for a living and falls in love easily. In “The Prince” by Niccolo Machiavelli he says the best way to manipulate people and gain power is through Intelligence‚ fear and emotion. In the novel “The Sister Brothers” Charlie the eldest brother employs all of these tactics to control his brother and those
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impossible. In that case‚ the prince should opt to be feared by his subjects. For one thing‚ a prince needs his subjects to be obedient. In order to make them obedient a prince must inspire his subjects to fear him. A prince must rely on fear rather than love‚ because‚ love is not strong enough to compel a person to act against his or her own self-interest. In order to instill this fear a prince must be able to utilize cruelty correctly. However‚ in using cruelty‚ a prince must take care to use restraint
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Niccolo Machiavelli was an Italian who saw the world more differently than any other man at the time. His writings like The Prince‚ challenged and brought new ideas about rulers and how they should act. Many people feared his ideas and still disagree on them today. Machiavelli strongly believed in deception of being good‚ not raising taxes and or not having true virtue‚ and how it is much safer to be feared than loved as a leader. These ideas were considered absurd to the people. And so many thought
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Machiavelli’s "Prince" is a unique historical work‚ as a letter written to Lorenzo Medici‚ but most of the work is meant for anyone who is able to understand. While the book was meant to serve as a guide for what characteristics the ideal ruler of a country would hold‚ he also hoped that the letter would bring him back in favor of the Medici’s who had previous exiled him. Machiavelli never dictates what or who the ideal prince is‚ but he continually offers examples and advice‚ which is often immoral
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Devasmita and the nun‚ two characters in Somadeva’s “The Red Lotus of Chastity”‚ employ the same concept from Machiavelli’s “The Prince”. Both Devasmita and the nun attempt to follow Machiavelli’s concept of being a lion and fox. However‚ only Devasmita succeeds in being both animals while the nun is merely a power hungry lion trying to dress up in a fox costume that did not fit. This concept of being a fox and lion means that to succeed in your ‘battle’ a person must be a cunning‚ deceitful fox
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