Yes, you had to read The Prince, because your professor had to fit something of Machiavelli's into the class, and so she chose the shortest of his works to keep the students bitching to a minimum. The Prince represents a small subset of Machiavelli's concept of government. The recommendations from T

The common wisdom goes that Machiavelli's discourses present to the reader the author's republican side, whereas The Prince was more aimed at the 'godlike rulers' - indeed, under the cover of a commentary of Livy, one of the foremost classical text of Roman origin, Nicolo takes us on a journey not u

چطور ممکنه کسی حدود ۵۰۰ سال پیش آن‌قدر صادقانه نوشته باشه؟ بااینکه با همۀ حرفاش قطعاً موافق نیستم، همین که بدون تلاش برای زینت بخشیدن به باورهایی که در تصور عموم جلوۀ چندان خوشایندی ندارن، صادقانه حرف می‌زنه خیلی به‌دلم می‌نشینه. انگار به هیچ وجه خودش را سانسور نمی‌کنه تا به مذاق کسی خوش بیاد. علاوه

I once started reading this book before having read Livy. That was a mistake. How Livy thinks and the stories he told are necessary in order to follow Machiavelli's methodology.

Machiavelli weaves Livy’s History of Rome by using the past to enlighten his present while shaping the present to reflect

In the DISCOURSES, Machiavelli teaches that passions always have and always will dominate politics even in an enlightened republic. Thus, reason alone will rarely carry the day. Sometimes other means of persuasion must be employed to sustain the continued success of the republic.

Like in his more fa

While Niccolo Machiavelli is famous for his "evil" book, the Prince, I believe this is his real masterpiece. In this book, he tries to identify what can be called the "macro" foundations of a well working republic, and his source material is the historical comparison of the Roman Empire (from the bo

هذا الكتاب هو أهم كتب مكيافلي وإن لم يكن اشهرها، ففيه زبدة تجاربه وخلاصة فهمه واشتغاله بالتاريخ متبعا في ذلك ابن خلدون حذو النعل بالنعل في منهجيته وأسلوبه وبعض الملاحظات التي تتطابق معه تطابقا غريبا,

سوى أنه في بحثه هنا رامق تاريخ روما بعين حديدة وأنظار فريدة لم يسبق إليها، ومعه إيمان خفي في أصله وثن