BIOL1008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Isocolon, Italian Peninsula, Moral Relativism
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Discuss which one of these two texts you feel evokes a more sympathetic response to how individuals react to the moral choices raised by the challenges of political life. Remember didactic tone, tricolon (three words/phrases- rhetoric technique) Social stability is the supreme aim of the state regardless of its form. Both william shakespeare and niccolo machiavelli shared the. While both shakespeare"s julius caesar and machiavelli"s treatise the. Prince uphold moral flexibility to ensure social stability, shakespeare"s historic tragedy offers a more sympathetic approach towards the moral choices raised by the challenges of political life. Machiavelli"s position as a civil servant who had lost his position in the florentine republic cemented his conviction of moral pragmatism as the cornerstone to successful statesmanship, inflicting cruelty when required. Similarly to machiavelli"s political insecurity, the threat of instability loomed as a distinct threat during shakespeare"s context as. Queen elizabeth"s reign was ending without an heir present.
