Machiavelli's The Prince: The Origins Of Politics
There were many transitions throughout history in terms of politics. One example is the United States, who went from having a king on the other side of the world to a president leading them in their own country. Another example is Germany, who went from having a horrible dictatorship to gaining a president who would look to help the country rebuild after a devastating war. Now I could come up with many other examples of historical transitions, but none are as important as the transition from the origin of politics and its theory in ancient Greece and how it can be led by a group of wise philosophers to one 16th century Italian man's new ideas about how a country could be lead through a born into power prince. In this paper, I will be discussing how an important work of Niccolo Machiavelli
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He talked of ways that a prince could maintain his political power once he has acquired it. This was a new way of discussing political theory because in the past it was about how anyone who was a philosopher would be ruling due to the wisdom and knowledge that could allow him to lead. With a prince, he is born into the family and gains the title of prince through that. Machiavelli takes a family of whom the prince is struggling and basically writes this entire book because of them and presents new ideas of how a prince could stay the way he is and not have to necessarily worry about he or his family being rebelled against. This goes against Plato and Aristotle in more ways in one, but in general, it just goes against their ideas that the philosophers should be the one to rule compared to just one prince. Of course, there are many specific situations in which Machiavelli and Plato/Aristotle differ, but this is just the general idea and was a different viewpoint for many readers and philosophers of Machiavelli's time who knew and respected Aristotle and Plato's
He talked of ways that a prince could maintain his political power once he has acquired it. This was a new way of discussing political theory because in the past it was about how anyone who was a philosopher would be ruling due to the wisdom and knowledge that could allow him to lead. With a prince, he is born into the family and gains the title of prince through that. Machiavelli takes a family of whom the prince is struggling and basically writes this entire book because of them and presents new ideas of how a prince could stay the way he is and not have to necessarily worry about he or his family being rebelled against. This goes against Plato and Aristotle in more ways in one, but in general, it just goes against their ideas that the philosophers should be the one to rule compared to just one prince. Of course, there are many specific situations in which Machiavelli and Plato/Aristotle differ, but this is just the general idea and was a different viewpoint for many readers and philosophers of Machiavelli's time who knew and respected Aristotle and Plato's