Like Jaffa, I try to show that Lear's errors are not, so to speak, vulgar errors; they do not simply proceed from stupidity or lack of thought. ... Acts 4 and 5 are crucial to a full understanding of Lear as a tragic figure, but most critics fail to follow the subtle turns Shakespeare portrays in the king's attitudes, because they do not think through the implications of Lear's radically changed view of the world. ... In the unsettling logic of the world of Lear, the characters pay a terrible price for the wisdom they gain and none more so than Lear himself. ... For one thing,...

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"Machiavelli says that rulers should be truthful, keep promises, and the like when doing so will not harm the state, and that they conquer and preserve the state, he should not shrink from wrongdoing when the preservation of the state requires this. ... The conclusion therefore is that Machiavelli's virtu is not of moral character, but of what is best or the utilitarian needs of the State. ... Machiavelli was a realist; he was concerned with how things were in reality, not how things could be if the world was perfect. "Machiavelli critically analyzes the crucial characteristics of succ...

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Again, he believed that only one thing could not be doubted, and that was doubt it self. ... " He that will not give just occasion to think that all government in the world is the product only of force and violence, and then men live together by no other rules but that of beats, where the strongest carries it must of necessity find another rise of government, another original of political power-.4 We associate Locke's theory with maintaining the interest rate and not devaluing the currency. ... According to Alexander Pope's version of perfectionism, it is part of the very order...

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Rousseau says that lawful political power does not exist in nature. ... "Might does not create right," explains Rousseau (Book I: III 173). If might produces right, then the people obey their rulers because they are forced to do so, not because they ought to. ... All governments are really mixed in character; and what we call a democracy is only a more or less democratic government. ... The government's role is merely to carry out the decrees, or acts of will, of the Sovereign people. ...

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Rousseau says that lawful political power does not exist in nature. ... "Might does not create right," explains Rousseau (Book I: III 173). If might produces right, then the people obey their rulers because they are forced to do so, not because they ought to. ... All governments are really mixed in character; and what we call a democracy is only a more or less democratic government. ... The government's role is merely to carry out the decrees, or acts of will, of the Sovereign people. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate