POL 2108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Final Analysis, Abscissa And Ordinate, Systematic Chaos
7 Apr 2016
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In the end, machiavelli prefers a republic form of government over any other. The basic themes of his discourses dealt with the social and political conditions whereby the conditions of virtue were destroyed, and secondly, machiavelli discuses procedures one may take for creating, maintaining, and destroying the republican government. Machiavelli defines republic as all governments that aren"t monarchies. The greatest example for modern politicians is the. Therefore, there were constant conflicts over property (agrarian law) Factions develop, there is the creation of civil war between cesar and pompeii. Cesar became ruler, ruled as a tyrant, and that was the end of rome as a free republic. Moreover, citizens had become complacent (according to machiavelli) Machiavelli teaches that the creation of the republic creates a paradox, because it must be instituted by an absolute leader/authority figure, which goes against the very principle of freedom that was meant to define the republic.
