Analyze the critique of the Catholic Church presented by Machiavelli in "The Prince" and show how Machiavelli reveals the true nature of the Church and devises ways to counter them.
Title: Analyze the critique of the Catholic Church presented by Machiavelli in "The Prince" and show how Machiavelli reveals the true nature of the Church and devises ways to counter them.
Category: /Social Sciences/Politics
Details: Words: 2010 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Analyze the critique of the Catholic Church presented by Machiavelli in "The Prince" and show how Machiavelli reveals the true nature of the Church and devises ways to counter them.
Category: /Social Sciences/Politics
Details: Words: 2010 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Machiavelli has long been "an object of hatred to moralists of all persuasions, conservatives and revolutionaries alike" for his "cunning, duplicity, and the exercise of bad faith in political affairs" . Yet, he remains one of the most important Philosophers of all time for his views on leadership and political power. Inadvertently, there lies something of value within his texts that is inherently constructive as opposed to his morally degraded thoughts. Within his book "The Prince", …showed first 75 words of 2010 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2010 total…who was schooled in the ways of humanity and morality for the purpose of exploiting it for his own personal good.
Bibliography 1)Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Penguin Books, England, 1999 2)Hans Kung, The Catholic Church : A Short History, Random House, New York, 2001 3)Quentin Skinner, Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, New York, 2000 4)Bernardo Machiavelli, Libro di Ricord, ed. C. Olschkii, Florence, 1954 5)Geoffrey Barraclough, The Medieval Papacy, C.S. Graphics, Singapore, 1992 6)http://www.emachiavelli.com
