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taking a life to save two hardly ever arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrat...
will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...
warning regarding change: "Changes in estate also issue from this, for if, to one who governs himself with caution and patience, t...
A Prince with virtu needed people with virtu in his armies to be able to conquer and control others and to maintain an element of ...
design a society that people might like. For example, in terms of sexual repression, Mores Utopia would allow people to see one an...
of his less knowledgeable subjects. There were several basic principals that Machiavelli put forth for his new princes-to-be. Fir...
(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
the consequences of these actions. King Lear is an eighty-year-old English monarch who is preparing for retirement. His major di...
background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
can look at contemporary examples to prove this point. For instance, there is something called an intervention in twelve step prog...
Hobbes believed that people, when left to their own governance, that is, without official laws and government, live in continual...
In five pages the perceptions of classical philosophers Machiavelli, Plato, and Aristotle are applied to defense management's ethi...
This paper examines if Niccolo Machiavelli or Plato would have provided Ralph with better advice on governing the island in this a...
a dramatic shift in perception in regards to fortune, and what was once believed to be a pre-ordained right was now considered to ...
and "advisors" were, in many ways, far more powerful than the aristocrat holding office. Machiavelli himself was such a creature ...
The ruler was seen as Gods representative on earth and his use of absolute power was justified by his receiving the right to rule ...
be stuck with high budget deficits. Economics aside, Ronald Reagan is considered an excellent leader and polished president. His...
culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...
are implications in relation to political leaders and others who rule. Clearly, Machiavelli sees politicians differently than he s...
Concerning war for example, Machiavelli (1515) writes: "With us there is great justice, because that war is just which is necessa...
as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...
course, many will argue with this precept, suggesting that the people should rule regardless. Yet, I believe that the people would...
This essay pertains to the anthropocentric worldview of King Claudius in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and Machiavelli, drawing on his te...
definition are most important, politics or economics, can be very difficult. Jeffrey Freiden a professor with Harvard University, ...
the location of he headquarters of the British Criminal Investigation Division. The objectives of the Irgun were to have British t...
the voters are in the position of consumers, making a purchase decision based on the available information (Lilleker and Lees-Mars...
a hierarchy in the cosmos."iii This hierarchy, which is typically referred to as the Great Chain of Being, was "gradually taken ov...
Modernity," contains 6 chapters, which are characterized by the editors preferred political economy approach. Part 2, "Political T...
Christianity is and always has been the dominant religious preference in the United States. It was founded on the philosophy of r...