POL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Cesare Borgia, Political Psychology, Self-Denial
25 Apr 2013
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Chapter 7 of machiavelli s prince- stories like this that gave. Machiavelli the reputation the teacher of evil after his book was published- some found his teaching so unbelievably outrageous that they found it satirical. Savor machiavelli s work playfully- wasn t a democrat in disguise- understood politics as the art of power and art of acquisition- repudiated plato and aristotle. Classical and christian theory agreed that nature is rational. Human beings by nature were social creatures. Virtue: good in itself worth pursuing for its own sake- plato argued that the philosophical life was the highest life- aristotle and cicero placed more importance on the political life. Disconnect about ideas of natural order and civic harmony on the. Perhaps he seems refreshingly honest compared to plato and. The world is simply a world of necessity- atoms collided, history did not make sense, nature brutal and violent.
