Alexander Lee’s biography is a great foray into the magnificent life and times of Machiavelli — the father of modern political philosophy Niccolò Machiavelli, the father of modern political philosophy ...
Yet almost immediately following publication of The Prince in England in 1584, Machiavellian became a byword for cunning and unscrupulous pragmatism in politics. We find Shakespeare putting this boast ...
Niccolò Machiavelli offered a famously dim view of human nature in The Prince. People are so “ungrateful, fickle, [and] false,” he wrote, that a ruler should comfortably abandon conventional morality ...
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