Essay Archive - Machiavelli's "The Prince": By Any Means Necessary
Machiavelli's "The Prince": By Any Means Necessary
Part 15 of Machiavelli's The Prince, entitled Of the Things for Which
Men, and Especially Princes, Are Praised or Blamed, states that, in order for a
man to maintain control of a government and better that territory, he must
engage in certain actions that may be deemed immoral by the public he serves.
Machiavelli argues a valid point, that the nature of man is twofold,
encompassing good and evil, right and wrong. The effectiveness of his argument,
however, relies on the fact that the person reading his essay is an objective
observer of h....
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