Insights into Machiavelli’s Personal and Intellectual Development. This book represents a valuable contribution to understanding Machiavelli, by linking his ideas with the life and context in which ...
Yet almost immediately following publication of The Prince in England in 1584, Machiavellian became a byword for cunning and unscrupulous pragmatism in politics. We find Shakespeare putting this boast ...
Niccolò Machiavelli offered a famously dim view of human nature in The Prince. People are so “ungrateful, fickle, [and] false,” he wrote, that a ruler should comfortably abandon conventional morality ...
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