POL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Leviathan, Cesare Borgia, Spiritual Warfare
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Chapters 22 and 23: advising the prince. Using cruelty well = security and prosperity in the society, at the cost of damaging a few. 15 to 19: a spiritual revolution, the only proper study for a prince is warfare and not law. Need to be cruel to be kind : out-source his cruelty: recall cesare borgia, previous nobles allowed for disorder and civil conflict. Violence is, more often than not, necessary. Especially new rulers cannot avoid a reputation of cruelty. Recall the four greatest rulers: do not have a reputation of cruelty. Machiavelli used a woman as an example: you don"t have to be manly in order to succeed as a ruler. ): great example of controlled violence, only shortcoming is that she fell in. It is better to use cruelty in a measured way without giving yourself a cruel reputation. love with aeneas.
