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 human nature. Not leav....
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