BF190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Consequentialism, Rationality
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He encourages his readers to question pre-modern values as well as accept the worst about human nature. Machiavelli does not believe legitimate rule is hereditary. Rather, he believes that if anyone wants to be part of the elite they have to be willing to use violence, to be selfish and power seeking, and be willing not to be good. These are the traits of a successful prince. What is politics: politics, closely associated with ethics, asks questions about human relationships. 1: government from the greek idea to steer or to steer with rudder , i. e. , as if the country were a boat. It is quite another prescribing how those social creatures. Are kings and emperors divine? (in china and japan the answer, historically, may have been yes! ) How different would your life be if communism had gained favour in the.
