The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli presents a written handbook for princes that became a classic treatise that transformed the understanding of politics and political theory. ... He expresses this through The Prince with quotes of keeping and obtaining power. ... This is a perfect example of The Prince because it views the best interest for the prince or ruler. ... They might not be able to keep their word to the prince but he needs to keep his word to them. ... Deceiving, is a principle for a prince to win and maintain honor. ...

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Love (in Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince) The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli is the book that was based on examples of princes and other rulers of Spain, Italy, and other European countries at the time of Renaissance. ... However, the following question arises, if a prince possesses all those fine qualities that make him a good person how can he be a great ruler who must be mortal and cruel, and according to Machiavelli, " no prince should mind being called cruel for what he does to keep his subjects united and loyal." ... Machiavelly, in the first sentence of this passage shows...

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The Prince By: Niccolo Machiavelli Julius Caesar once said, "I came, I saw, I conquered." Niccolo Machiavelli' s novel The Prince, he envisions himself as a ruler and through his successes and failures at political strategy, he achieves greatness through his final achievement of writing a masterpiece. ... My second reason that inspired Machiavelli to write The Prince, promises to benefit future rulers on how to rule more effectively. ... If Julius did not invest so much time in a false appearance, he could have redeemed himself rather then becoming a mean and hurtful prince. ... Ma...

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He claims that the people have a natural response of resisting a new prince that enters their territory and that the new prince cannot truly punish them if he is trying to win their support. ... Vices that would normally be condemned however, are sometimes necessary in protecting the prince's interests. ... Moving on to honesty, Machiavelli seems to believe that dishonesty has its benefits among princes too. ... A prince must appear virtuous, but he doesn't have to have virtue. ... By giving the masses access to weapons, they help both themselves and the prince from enemy attacks. ...

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Machiavelli: The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli was born into a time of political upheaval in Italy. ... The Prince is the text from which my source is taken. ... Using this insight, Machiavelli in The Prince describes how one would be best to go about achieving and maintaining power. ... The source within the textbook is a very famous excerpt taken from the 17th chapter of The Prince. ... He has a clear dislike of mercenaries in both the source excerpt and in The Prince. ...

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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. ... Machiavelli insists that the prince should seem "exceptionally merciful, trustworthy, upright, humane and devout" and says further that the prince "need not actually posses all the above mentioned qualities, but he must certainly seem to" . ... Another instance, for which Machiavelli feels that it is necessary for a prince to venture beyond "properly human means" and act beastly, or cruel is the wa...

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(The first holds the actual character, personality, beliefs of the prince;! ... It might be good to note the slightly chauvanistic temper to The Prince. ... And, of course, most frequent of all was Machiavelli's emphatic comment that a new prince could only manage ! ... This is so important--and virtuous--because it would keep the prince from fouling his residence (and thus from fouling Florence) and it would tend to make him a Florentine, the best thing for a prince of Florence to be. In the final analysis, virtu and fortuna come screaming out from the pages of The Prince itself. ...

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That action can be whatever the prince determines is necessary to achieve the ends sought. ... As Machiavelli states: "It must be understood that a prince cannot observe all those things which are consider good in men, being often obliged, in order to maintain the state, to act against charity, against humanity, and against religion . . .it is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong." ... He believes that these injure a whole community, while the executions ordered by a prince fall only upon a few individuals. ... As a corollary to this Machiavelli addresses whe...

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"The Prince," written by Niccolo Machiavelli in 1513, was a great representation of the new ideas that surfaced within literature during the Renaissance. ... Machiavelli stressed the need to conquer new lands and for princes to maintain their power through any means necessary, using Alexander VI, Cesare Borgia, and Julius II as his primary examples. He modeled his treatise on that of Aristotle's Politics, and his premise of how princes should conduct themselves morally was based on an understanding of human nature itself. With respect and knowledge of the actual virtues man possessed, a p...

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1.The Italian Renaissance followed on the heels of the Middle Ages, and was spawned by the birth of the philosophy of humanism, which emphasized the importance of individual achievement in a wide range of fields. The early humanists, such as writer Francesco Petrarch, studied the works of the ancien...

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Machiavelli wrote one of the most influential political books of all time, called the Prince, which is considered one of the most important works to stem from the Italian Renaissance. Machiavelli expanded on his belief in the Prince, that Italians should behave with ferocity when it comes to politics, and should back up that ferocity with a unified force. ...

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Machiavelli wrote one of the most influential political books of all time, called the Prince, which is considered one of the most important works to stem from the Italian Renaissance. Machiavelli expanded on his belief in the Prince--that Italians should behave with ferocity when it comes to politics--and should back up that ferocity with a unified force. ...

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Furthermore, following the return of Medici in 1512 forcing him into exile, a diplomat notably known as Niccolo Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513. 7 His lectures became a political guidebook in advising rulers, where he believed that being politically effective outweighed morality. ...

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Europe went through vast changes between 1300 and 1600 with astounding inventions in the disciplines of science, astronomy, exploration and art (painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature). This time period, known as the Renaissance, was seen as a new age of learning and thinking with a cultural movement in which art, literature, music, philosophy, and education contributed to numerous developments and influences. The Renaissance movement had its genesis in fourteenth century Florence, Italy with the notable writer Francesco Petrarca (or Petrarch) endorsing the idea of a reawakening of...

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