Machiavelli's The Prince: Christian Humanism
Jomo Daniels
Professor Johnson
CIV II
7/9/2015
Humanism is a belief that places value on humans individually and as a whole. Humanism involves the progression of humans and their rights. Humanism has many different eras and has evolved through time. Humanism can be placed into many categories. Humanism is focuses mainly on the needs and interest of man but not particularly through god. Christian Humanism focuses on the advancement of man with the backbone of Christian principles. Humanism comes as a belief just as well as religion and can be interpreted in many ways. In Machiavelli’s The Prince, he tackles of issues in society and the government as a whole. Machiavelli believed a good ruler is one that could give justice and provide some type of order to his citizens. He believed that a good ruler should focus more on the present rather than what could be. Machiavelli used several examples to demonstrate his way of thinking in a humanistic way and running a government. He used the fox and the lion for an example. A good ruler should be able to use cunningness and brute force per situation in which it is called for. Machiavelli believes that there are two ways of fighting something, that is by law or by force and he believed those are …show more content…
The Church said things must be done a certain way and people must behave a certain way but Machiavelli argued that we shouldn’t let god solely control our lives and to live for once and take matters into your own hands creating your own destiny. The Prince is one big idea of the way things should be and presented views of humanism and the Catholic Church dogma that are backed by lessons in history that Machiavelli used to demonstrating the way a ruler should lead in regards to government. The Prince says argues not only individuality but collectivism in humans as a
Professor Johnson
CIV II
7/9/2015
Humanism is a belief that places value on humans individually and as a whole. Humanism involves the progression of humans and their rights. Humanism has many different eras and has evolved through time. Humanism can be placed into many categories. Humanism is focuses mainly on the needs and interest of man but not particularly through god. Christian Humanism focuses on the advancement of man with the backbone of Christian principles. Humanism comes as a belief just as well as religion and can be interpreted in many ways. In Machiavelli’s The Prince, he tackles of issues in society and the government as a whole. Machiavelli believed a good ruler is one that could give justice and provide some type of order to his citizens. He believed that a good ruler should focus more on the present rather than what could be. Machiavelli used several examples to demonstrate his way of thinking in a humanistic way and running a government. He used the fox and the lion for an example. A good ruler should be able to use cunningness and brute force per situation in which it is called for. Machiavelli believes that there are two ways of fighting something, that is by law or by force and he believed those are …show more content…
The Church said things must be done a certain way and people must behave a certain way but Machiavelli argued that we shouldn’t let god solely control our lives and to live for once and take matters into your own hands creating your own destiny. The Prince is one big idea of the way things should be and presented views of humanism and the Catholic Church dogma that are backed by lessons in history that Machiavelli used to demonstrating the way a ruler should lead in regards to government. The Prince says argues not only individuality but collectivism in humans as a