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....
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