Niccolo Machiavelli
BIOGRAPHY Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli Born: 3 May 1469 Florence, Republic of Florence Died: 21 June 1527 (aged 58) Florence, Republic of Florence Era: Renaissance philosophy Region: Western philosophy School: Renaissance humanism, political realism, classical republicanism Main interests: Politics and political philosophy, military theory, history Works: “The Prince” , “Discourses on Livy”, Political works , Fictional works
-14 years was involved in politics - Founder of “Political realism ” - Main problems: reasons of birth and death of government. The influence of individuals on historical events. - He was the first person , who stated that government doesn’t depend from church
Niccolo Machiavelli’s books
-Ideal government is based on mind & experiment - Republic is the best form of state - Machiavelli wrote his most famous work, The Prince (1513), about how to get and keep power and what makes individuals effective leaders. He proposed that the overwhelming responsibility of a good prince is to defend the state from external and internal threats to stable governance. This means he must know how to fight, but more importantly, he must know about reputation and the management of those around him. People should neither think he is soft and easy to disobey, nor should they find him so cruel that he disgusts his society. He should seem unapproachably strict but reasonable. When he turned to the question of whether it was better for a prince to be loved or feared,
- Moral is not important - Moral is applied on personal life , but not in politics - Considered that for ideal government lies , betrayal , murder are allowed - Egoism is the basis of all - "Machiavellianism" is a widely-used negative term to characterize unscrupulous politicians of the sort Machiavelli described in The Prince. The book itself gained enormous notoriety and wide readership because most readers assumed the author was teaching and endorsing evil and immoral behavior. Because of this, the term "Machiavellian" is often associated with deceit, deviousness, ambition, and brutality, although Machiavelli likely only used it as stylistic device to gain the reader's attention for his close analysis of the actual techniques used by rulers.
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