POLSCI 2O06 Study Guide - Final Guide: Bloody Knife, Merchant Prince, Cesare Borgia
18 Apr 2016
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Behind these tips he makes a larger point. Everything that he tells us have the same interest establishing and maintaining political stability. He identifies main sources of instability that associations face. How the prince can be toppled, undermined, how a new state can crumble. Stability is what we want out of a political association, hard to secure. Shows us what a prince needs to do to deal with those threats. Was to advise a prince (1) how to acquire power, (2) how to hold on to power once he has it, (3) once acquired power, how to extend his power over other city-states and other territories in italy. Machiavelli has had the questionable honour of having his name enshrined as a synonym for. Evil" and to relate to power politics in a naked" and constrained" form. Emphasizes the dark side of human beings and insists that most people are murderers, cruel, deceitful, disloyal.
