To this end, In The Prince, Machiavelli offers the following advice to would be princes: "You should know, then, that there are two ways of contending: one by using laws, the other, force. ... He feels that as far as politics are concerned the actual actions of the ruler need not be morally sound, if the outcome benefits the state, the actions of the ruler will be judged honorable by the majority of people and praised by everyone because "people are impressed by appearances and results " and pay little attention to the wicked deeds that may have been done as a means to an end. ... Another ...

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Niccolo Machiavelli, writer of The Prince, categorizes a prince through their capability to bend and change the laws to his advantage, their ability to instill fear through cruelty treatment towards their people, and their aptitude for maintaining the state. ... On page 45 of "The Prince," Machiavelli also claims that "a prince must not worry about the reproach of cruelty " and Vladimir has certainly taken this advice to heart. ... According to Niccolo Machiavelli, maintaining the state is the key to being a great prince, and thus must be the main priority of the prince because without maintai...

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That action can be whatever the prince determines is necessary to achieve the ends sought. ... He believes that these injure a whole community, while the executions ordered by a prince fall only upon a few individuals. ... While inflicting a little cruelty in the beginning will prevent further actions of similar deviant behavior. As a corollary to this Machiavelli addresses whether a prince should be loved or feared. ... Relying on the premise that the end always justifies the means, Machiavelli concludes that the prince should not swerve from good if possibl...

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau constructed The Social Contract to solve the question of freedom, specifically, the preservation and survival of what he terms as civil freedom, and his solution to this problem, in its most general sense, is the construction of the civil state. Through the grouping of citizens, each willing to surrender himself to the entire community, one is able to set limitations on their own behavior, live with others as a whole, and, in doing so, think rationally and act morally. More importantly, by agreeing to the social contract, the people simultaneously give up their physical f...

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau constructed The Social Contract to solve the question of freedom, specifically, the preservation and survival of what he terms as civil freedom, and his solution to this problem, in its most general sense, is the construction of the civil state. Through the grouping of citizens, each willing to surrender himself to the entire community, one is able to set limitations on their own behavior, live with others as a whole, and, in doing so, think rationally and act morally. More importantly, by agreeing to the social contract, the people simultaneously give up their physical f...

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