PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Human Nature, Ethical Dilemma
10 Sep 2016
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God"s responsibility for morale/evil: god has created me in his image, that is, with intelligence and free will (which i also have and which are both gifts from god). So, he knows that i will be making free choices (ie: using free will but that doesn"t mean that he knows. Also, god has created me in his image but doesn"t mean equal to him. No praise can enhance such a great name. Machiavelli was born and lived in florence. The prince, written around 1513, was dedicated to. Lorenzo de medici, a brutal ruler of florence. He was considered one of the first political philosophers and the founder of tactics, the art of war. The prince remains his most popular work in which he describes human nature and what should and should not be expected of a ruler. Machiavelli"s philosophy has been believed to be just the opposite of plato"s. However, there are many similarities between the two thinkers.
