POL 2108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Merchant Prince, Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Ottoman Empire
16 Apr 2017
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Someone who judges the morality of an action based on its consequences. Political morality appropriate for the political world perhaps it differs from other types of moral assessments. New science to politics he presents himself as someone who is doing something new in the prince. Rejects the metaphysics of plato presents the realistic side of politics. But he also looks back in history he tells us to imitate ancients. Appealing to the ancients and worldly human life rather than the other world (plato) Half way there are literary observations, not as illustrative as boetie. Machiavelli is precise and using examples you can follow- they"re concrete practices we imitate. See it in discourse and in the prince. Rousseau says about the prince: pretending to give lessons to kings, he gave great ones to the people. On the other side, you have the advocate of tyranny. Pretty easy interpretation of him being a realist.
