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The Prince (Hardcover)
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The Prince (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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How should rulers rule? What is the nature of power? These
questions had already been asked when Niccolo Machiavelli wrote The
Prince in 1513. But what made his thinking on the topic different
was his ability to interpret evidence: to look at old issues and
find new meaning within them. Many of Machiavelli's contemporaries
thought that God would make sure morality was rewarded. To these
people, it was inevitable that ethical individuals would enjoy
success in this world and attain paradise in the next. Machiavelli
was not so sure. He used the evidence of history to prove that
people who can lie, cheat and murder tend to succeed. Machiavelli
concluded that three main factors affect a political leader's
success or failure. In doing so, he reached an entirely new
understanding of the meaning of his evidence. Machiavelli argued
that behaving in a moral way actually hinders a ruler. If everyone
acted morally, he reasoned, then morals would not be a
disadvantage. But in a world in which leaders are willing to be
ruthless, a moral leader would make both themselves and their state
vulnerable. Machiavelli's novel interpretation posits that morals
can make a leader hesitate, and this could cost them - and the
citizens they are responsible for - everything.
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