Born into a time when self serving aspirations in the name of thepublic well being were the norm of public life, Niccolo Machiavelli wrotehis two discourses on public government as a means of demonstrating thedifferences between moral, and immoral governments, and then as an attemptto curry f...

The term "Machiavellian" is defined as being conniving, duplicitous, efficient, and calculating. This term derived its origin from the philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli. But was Machiavelli actually deserving of this expression? Through both building up my arguments, and negating opposing ...

The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince examines the nature of power and his views of power which are still somewhat in existence today. I will discuss and examine what I feel to be the most important principals of Machiavelli's theory. Machiavelli stresses power over the people, dictatorial p...

Readers from all walks of life have revered Niccolo Machiavelli's masterpiece of political and social thinking, The Prince, since it was published in the sixteenth century. The influence of this piece has shaped politics, as we know it. Almost all of the provisions written by Machiavelli are in so...

Machiavelli's The Prince represents one of the most significant political works of all time. Although it is nearly five hundred years old, it is still a work applicable to major world events. Many major themes including the imitating of past figures, the balance of cruelty and mercy, and the reten...

****Writer's note: This paper dissects Thomas More's Utopia and Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince in an effort to discover their views on Human nature---This paper can easily be transformed from this topic******Niccolo Machiavelli vs. Thomas More : Defining Human NatureIt is difficult to determine Ni...

Managing People and RelationshipsManaging people and relationships is vital to any business' success. Lack of proper management of people and relationship will indefinitely result in failure. Niccolo Machiavelli wrote a masterpiece regarding the strategic relationships between the people involved ...

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli provides an analysis on how to govern and maintain power in a principality. In the first five chapters, he defines the three ways a monarch can acquire his dominion: either he inherits it, whether he creates a new one, or annexes territories, and further discusses h...

"An Outline and Arguments on The Prince by Machiavelli"Niccolo Machiavelli was a very knowledgeable man. He was born in Florence in 1469 and when he was of the age 43 he wrote The Prince. His first admission into politics happened in1498 with the title as Secretary to the Second Chancery of the Si...

For many centuries people have been looking for answers to different questions that political life raises. To find these answers we often draw attention to the ideas developed centuries ago. One of the people who established ideas about politics was Niccolo Machiavelli whose work was important e...

It may not always begin as a conscious decision, but it remains clear that there are strong influences on works stemming from previous writings that manifest themselves in major concepts that have undergone changes across time. We can see multiple instances of these influences between Nicolo Machia...

Why was "The Prince" Written?Italy was divided between four dominant city-states, and each of these was continually at the mercy of the stronger foreign government of Europe. Since 1434 the wealthy Medici family ruled Florence. Due to a reform movement, Medici rule was temporarily interrupted in ...

The only way it was possible to get ahead was to be part of the inner circle. It didn't really matter what the issue was or what sort of implications it carried. All that mattered was knowing the right person, having the right information, making the right introductions, and going to the rig...

Since the advent of the socially and politically conscious man, history has witnessed the rise and fall of authoritarian personalities and their virtuous counterparts. The persistence of time has given us a wide spectrum of power-driven leaders and revolutionaries ranging from the anti-violent Moha...

Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark and the rightful heir to the thrown of his dead father,should have been King of Denmark and would have been King, but his Uncle marriedHamlet's mother before he could claim his place. In the final act, Hamlet kills his uncleto avenge the murder of his father, but is poi...