POL 2108 Lecture 2: Machiavelli (The Prince) Lecture 2 .docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2108
• Professor: Sophie Bourgault

Document Summary

People who hope to gain = friends: difficult to persuade people until they can see/feel the good of the new system, most important thing to found something good army & arms, fortuna + virtu, all these heroes were armed and that"s why they succeeded, standing army, discipline, good resources, etc, you need arms because at some point people might start to question you, force people to believe in you when they stop doing so, coercion is always necessary, p. 20 thus it is that all armed prophets are victorious and disarmed ones are crushed, moses needed arms and violence to succeed arms and brute force succeed, prince should have a certain power of foresight and a long term vision for the community, (armed, foresight, and vision, savonarola re established god"s power over the people of florence, big mistake he remained unarmed (otherwise, he did everything else correctly)