ECH 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Merchant Prince, Political Ethics, Tyrant

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Conflict Studies and Human Rights
• Course: ECH 2310
• Professor: Michael Williams

Document Summary

Part 1: political thinkers: machiavelli, hobbes, locke, rousseau, contemporary populism, power. Part 2: war: modern war, globalization and security (rights and security) Looking at different sides regarding rights, who is right , a lot of it is perspective (cips) engaging in global politics. Involved as a renaissance political actors/political advisor, he was a republican, thus had wanted to overthrow princely government. However, the florentine lost. during his exile he looked to understand politics and how it functions. What we are studying (1) machiavelli attempts to find the relationship between ethics and politics, (what is politics) (2) while machiavelli advisor to tyrants, the first and best theorists of democracy. Ethics and politics, what is politics according to machiavelli. Machiavelli believes everyone can understand politics, but thinks almost all are all bad at as we think we understand. Machiavelli believes it is important understand politics properly. To look at politics and ethics from a different angles.