Premium Content Finding Machiavelli: An Examination of Motive and Intention Through a Modern Political Lens
By Anonymous - October 31, 2009
Introduction
Niccolo Machiavelli’s seminal work of political science, The Prince, directed at a prince of the then-powerful Medici family of Florence, has been the subject of much debate over the centuries since it was published. Decried as a shameless and unapologetic map of despotism by many, it has also been read as a careful treatise on the…
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