(October 28, 2020 at 2:41 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(October 28, 2020 at 2:27 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Therefore, he’s not even doing Machiavelli all that properly, because he championed the pragmatic use of political violence and this just isn’t.
He’s going straight at ‘the end justifies the means’.
Boru
I think TVTropes said it best when they said: The Prince should be regarded as a guidebook to maintaining power for the good of the prince and ultimately the state, not how to kick puppies left and right. (Truth be told, if you need a book to tell you how to kick puppies left and right, you're probably not cut out to be the sort of nasty, tyrannical overlord Machiavelli predicts will be rewarded with his own head on a spike.)
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
